Officers of the Bolivarian National Police (CPNB), attached to its Criminal Penal Intelligence Directorate (DIP) in Nueva Esparta state, carried out an operational deployment on the island of Cubagua that ended with two people detained.[1] Police commissions deployed around the perimeter spotted the two people at the moment they tried to evade the authorities by hiding in the island’s scrub vegetation.[1]
During a search of the terrain the officers seized more than 800 kilograms of presumed marijuana on the island.[1] The drugs were packed in 1,529 wrappers found inside various packages concealed among bushes.[1] The officers also retained logistical and maritime-navigation material linked to the case, including three global positioning devices, mobile phones and a gasoline-powered electricity generator.[1]
According to an account attributed to Unión Radio, the security operation followed forensic analysis of previously seized technological devices whose digital contents yielded satellite coordinates.[1] Those coordinates guided the police commissions to an unpopulated strip of the insular territory where the packages and the suspects were found.[1]
