The PDI’s Brigada Antinarcóticos Calama, working with the Local Prosecutor’s Office, dismantled an organization dedicated to illicit drug trafficking and detained two Peruvian citizens.[1][2] The two detainees are Peruvian men aged 32 and 37, one with regular migratory status but an expulsion notice and the other with irregular migratory status.[1][2] Both men were formally charged with illicit drug trafficking before Calama’s guarantee court, which set a 70-day investigation period.[1][2]
The operation took place on 28 October in the commune of Calama, where the group used a private home to stockpile drugs for later distribution to microtraffickers in different parts of the city.[1] Officers seized 55 packages of cannabis amounting to 57 kilos 120 grams.[3][2] Officers also seized a motorcycle and three mobile phones linked to the investigation.[1][2]
Regional prosecutor Juan Castro Bekios highlighted the joint investigative work of BRIANT and the Calama prosecutor’s office in dismantling the stash-and-distribution organization.[1] Castro Bekios said this case adds to two procedures from the prior week against alleged delivery sellers and a stash found on a Calama plot, as evidence of a joint strategy against groups settling in neighborhoods.[1]
