Nine tons of FARC marijuana seized from house near Corinto
Anti-narcotics police found nine tons of marijuana in 129 bags in a country house near Corinto, Cauca, attributing the stash to the FARC's 6th Front and bound for export. No arrests were reported.
Colombian anti-narcotics police seized nine tons of marijuana found on Saturday in a house near the village of Corinto, in the southwestern department of Cauca.[1][2]Colonel Carlos Rodríguez, a deputy director of the anti-narcotics police, said the drugs belonged to the 6th Front of the FARC guerrillas and were meant for export, with Central America as the stated destination.[1][2]
Inside the country-style residence officers found 129 bags that tested positive for cannabis and its derivatives, with a net weight of 9,000 kilos.[2]Police estimated the street value of the stash at 15.3 million dollars, calling it a significant blow to the guerrillas’ finances; Diálogo separately cited a black-market value of 795,000 dollars.[1][2]
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Police put the street value at 15.3 million dollars while Diálogo cites 795,000 dollars on the international black market; the report stores the street-value estimate.
No arrests were reported in either account of the seizure.
Soldiers of the Colombian Army's Ninth Brigade captured two men at a checkpoint in Balsillas, San Vicente del Caguán, Caquetá, and seized 87 kilograms of marijuana they were carrying on two motorcycles. The Army estimated the load at about 160 million pesos and about 174,000 doses.
Army troops seized 1,700 kilograms of pressed marijuana from a van in Santander de Quilichao, Cauca, capturing one person after a pursuit from a military checkpoint. The Third Division attributed the load to the FARC dissidents' Dagoberto Ramos structure and valued the loss to it at more than 425 million pesos.
Colombian army, navy and police units seized about 2,700 kilograms of suspected marijuana from a bongo remolcador river boat at the Hong Kong wharf in Puerto Asís, Putumayo. Authorities linked the load to the Segunda Marquetalia dissidence's Comandos de Frontera, without naming suspects or giving a value.
Colombian police stopped a vehicle in the urban area of Chinchiná, Caldas, carrying 520 kilograms of marijuana and arrested the person caught in the act, immobilising a car with altered identification systems. President Abelardo de la Espriella announced the haul as part of two operations, the other being 358 kilograms of cocaine found in generators at the port of Cartagena.
