Man, 22, arrested with 33 kg of marijuana on a Cumaribo bridge
Police and army troops arrested a 22-year-old man carrying 33 kilograms of marijuana in 39 bricks on a motorcycle at Puente Taro Taro in Cumaribo, Vichada, police said. Police valued the load at more than 100 million pesos and handed the man, his motorcycle and a phone to the competent authority, where he faced a hearing to decide his legal situation.
Colombian police and army troops arrested a 22-year-old man riding a motorcycle
over Puente Taro Taro, in the Alcaraván neighbourhood of Cumaribo, Vichada.[1]Officers were checking people and vehicles at a checkpoint in the Alcaraván
neighbourhood when they stopped and searched him.[1]The Army’s own statement
put the arrest at Puente Taro Taro, in the Alcaraván neighbourhood of Cumaribo
municipality.[2]
He was carrying 39 bricks of marijuana weighing 33 kilograms in a sack.[1]Judicial police testing identified the load as creepy marijuana, a common name
in Colombia for pressed, high-grade cannabis.[2]Police valued the load at
more than 100 million pesos.[1]
Officers seized his motorcycle and a mobile phone.[1]The man and the seized
items were handed to the competent authority, and he faces charges of
possessing, trafficking or manufacturing narcotics while a judge decides his
legal situation.[1]
El Morichal reported the operation as a joint action by the Army with the
Aerospace Force and the National Police.[3]
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Source: Policía Nacional de ColombiaPhoto published with the Army's statement on the arrest at Puente Taro Taro, showing the operation's result. Photo: El MorichalPhoto details
The police statement gives no separate date for the arrest; 27 November 2023 is its publication date and is used as the incident date, while El Morichal's account was published a day earlier and Prensa Libre Casanare reported the case on 27 November.
The accused man was not named, and no charge sheet, prosecutor referral or court outcome was reported; a judge was still to decide his legal situation.
The 33 kilograms are given as a police figure with no measuring detail, and the more than 100 million peso value is the police's own estimate.
Police describe the load as 39 panelas, while the Army statement and two outlets describe packages and 33 kilograms without a pack count; the 39-brick figure is the police account's.
Only the police page names the Puente Taro Taro site as being in Cumaribo municipality together with the Alcaraván neighbourhood; the exact position of the bridge inside the municipality was not mapped.
The police page is an English machine translation of the Spanish statement; quotations are taken from the opened English capture of that page.
The photos published with the police and El Morichal reports carry only generic captions and are not independently established to show this arrest.
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Córdoba police arrested seven people on drug-trafficking charges across Lorica, Planeta Rica, Montelíbano and Tierralta, seizing 20.6 grams of weighed marijuana and 12 marijuana cigarettes alongside cocaine, bazuco, coca base and cash. All seven detainees were placed at the disposal of the Fiscalía General de la Nación while their legal status is decided.
National Police arrested a 35-year-old man in the Oasis neighborhood of Rivera, Huila, seizing 57 marijuana cigarettes from his backpack during a Plan Cazador night patrol. He was placed at the disposal of the competent authority on suspicion of drug trafficking.
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