2,356 kg of marijuana seized from a truck in Palmira
Valle del Cauca investigators seized 2,356 kg of marijuana from a truck in Palmira on 2 June 2013 and captured one suspect. The haul was the first of two large truck seizures in the department within three days.
Judicial police of Valle del Cauca (Sijin) found a truck carrying 2,356 kg of pressed marijuana in Palmira on Sunday 2 June 2013.[1]Colombia Reports, citing the police, rounds the haul to nearly 2.6 tons and says one person was captured in the operation.[2]
The seizure was the first of two large marijuana hauls from trucks in Valle del Cauca within three days, followed by the interception of 3,531 kg hidden under passion fruit near Buga on 4 June, a separate event reported on its own.[2][1]Those detained and the seized marijuana were handed to the Fiscalía, to be prosecuted for trafficking, manufacture or possession of narcotics.[1]
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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.
Colombian National Police investigators seized 7,452 grams of marijuana in the Los Quindos neighbourhood of Armenia, Quindío, along with 98 boxes of clonazepam. Police said the marijuana was meant for sale in minimum doses at sales points around the city and handed the drugs to the local prosecutor's office; no arrests were reported.
