3,531 kg of marijuana seized under passion fruit near Buga
Highway police seized 3,531 kg of pressed marijuana hidden under a passion fruit shipment at the Betania toll near Buga on 4 June 2013. The truck driver and a 17-year-old helper were detained; the load had come from Cauca and was bound for Bogotá.
🇨🇴 Betania toll, Buga–Tuluá highway, Valle del Cauca · Colombia
Units of the National Police’s traffic and transport directorate stopped a truck at the Betania toll on the Buga–Tuluá dual carriageway on Tuesday 4 June 2013 and found pressed marijuana camouflaged under a shipment of passion fruit.[1]The stash weighed exactly 3,531 kg, had allegedly come from the department of Cauca, and was bound for Bogotá.[1]
Officers detained the truck driver and a 17-year-old travelling with him as a helper.[1]Colombia Reports described the same interception as a 3.9-tonseizure at a checkpoint between Buga and Andalucía, with both drivers arrested.[2]The detainees, the truck and the marijuana were handed to the Fiscalía, to be prosecuted for trafficking, manufacture or possession of narcotics.[1]
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Colombia Reports rounds this seizure to 3.9 tons and places the checkpoint between Buga and Andalucía; this report uses Radio Santa Fe's exact weight of 3,531 kg at the Betania toll on the Buga–Tuluá road.
The identities of the detained driver and helper and the outcome of their prosecution were not reported in the opened sources.
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