Six tonnes of marijuana seized near Puerto Tejada, Cauca
Highway and Cauca police seized six tonnes of high-grade marijuana from a truck at a rural crossroads near Puerto Tejada on 20 July 2013 and captured the four men guarding it. Police called it the department's biggest seizure of the year, worth 10 billion pesos in street doses.
Police found six tonnes of high-grade marijuana in a truck at a rural crossroads linking Puerto Tejada and Villa Rica with Florida and Pradera on Saturday afternoon, 20 July 2013.[1][2][3]The seizure happened around 4:40 p.m., after the driver left the Villarrica–Candelaria road and hid the truck, packed with 88 parcels, in nearby cane fields on seeing the authorities.[2][3]
The load was guarded by four men and escorted by a motorbike without plates; the men tried to flee through the cane fields but police captured all four.[3]Cauca police commander Colonel Ricardo Augusto Alarcón said the marijuana was valued at 10 billion pesos sold by dose and was headed for Cali, Palmira and Buga, and called it the biggest seizure his force had made all year.[3]National traffic director General Carlos Ramiro Mena said it kept 12 million doses off the market and that transit police had taken 61 tonnes on the country’s roads so far that year.[2]
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