The Traffic and Transport Division of the Santander Police searched a building in Girón that it said was used to distribute drugs.[1] Officers arrested two men, aged 23 and 32, in flagrante delicto at the premises.[1] The search found more than 500 doses of marijuana and 27 doses of bazuco.[1] The detainees and the seized substances were handed to the 6th Local Prosecutor’s Office of Girón on charges of trafficking, manufacture or possession of narcotics.[1]

In a second operation on the Lizama–San Alberto road at kilometer 31+200 in the Las Pampas sector of Sabana de Torres, officers stopped a truck carrying eight plastic tanks of gasoline that was reportedly being moved illegally toward Bucaramanga.[1] The truck’s occupants were arrested in flagrante delicto and mobile phones were seized.[1] Those involved were handed to the on-duty prosecutor of Sabana de Torres on suspicion of receptation (receiving stolen goods).[1]

Colonel Luis Fernando Atuesta Zárate, commander of the Santander Police, said the controls against illicit economies would continue.[1] The arrests and seizures in Girón and Sabana de Torres were reported as two separate operations by the Traffic and Transport Division.[2]