Six tonnes of marijuana seized from a truck at El Bolo, Palmira
Highway police seized about 6,000 kg of pressed marijuana from a container truck at El Bolo outside Palmira on 26 June 2013. The load had come from northern Cauca and was bound for Bogotá; police valued it at more than 3.6 billion pesos.
🇨🇴 El Bolo, rural Palmira, Valle del Cauca · Colombia
Highway police in Valle del Cauca found about 6,000 kg of pressed marijuana inside the container of a truck stopped at kilometre 44 in El Bolo, rural Palmira.[1][2]The truck had left northern Cauca, and the driver carried two manifests, one for Ibagué and one for Bogotá.[2]Regional commander General Francisco Patiño said the interception kept millions of doses from circulating in the cities.[1][2]
Concealment and value
The marijuana was packed in more than a hundred plastic sacks stashed among wooden pallets, in a truck with Bucaramanga plates TBW 069.[2]Police estimated the load was worth more than 3.6 billion pesos, about 1.8 million dollars.[1][2]El Tiempo reported the seizure brought the 2013 tally on Valle roads to 41 tonnes; Colombia Reports, citing Semana, linked the load to a boom in pot cultivation in north-eastern Cauca for the domestic market.[1][2]
Case data
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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.
