Two held with ten marijuana packages in a motokar in Punchana
Anti-drug police in Iquitos stopped a motokar in Punchana district and found a backpack with ten packages of suspected marijuana, then detained the driver and his passenger. Both are under investigation for illicit drug trafficking, and the exact weight of the drug had not been established.
🇵🇪 Pasaje 28 de Setiembre, Asentamiento Humano Amazonas, Punchana, Maynas, Loreto · Peru
Agents of DIRANDRO PNP Iquitos, Peru’s anti-drug police unit, stopped two people
travelling in a blue motokar at Pasaje 28 de Setiembre in the Asentamiento
Humano Amazonas, Punchana district, after information from the DIVINESP.[1]During the search of the motokar, licence plate 7780-CD, officers found a
backpack holding ten packages of material that a field test indicated was
Cannabis Sativa, marijuana.[1]The two detained were Frank Jhoel Mosquera
Nolorbe, 33, who was driving, and Mayte Caterin Pinto Yahuarcani, 33, a
passenger.[1]Both were detained and are being investigated for the alleged
crime of illicit drug trafficking.[1]
The operation was carried out with the Iquitos specialised drug-trafficking
prosecutor, José Francisco Malaverry Pinchi.[1]The pair, the suspected drug
and other seized items were taken to the DIRANDRO premises in Iquitos to
continue proceedings.[1]The exact quantity of the drug was still to be
determined, and authorities must establish where the substance came from and
where it was going.[1]The case is being investigated as an offence against
public health in the form of illicit drug trafficking, against the Peruvian
state.[1]
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