Two 16-year-olds and an adult held with marijuana and bazuco in Saldaña, Tolima
Tolima department police detained two 16-year-old boys on patrol in the vereda La Esperanza, Saldaña, then arrested an adult, and a search found about 80 doses of marijuana and 10 small doses of bazuco. The three were handed to the local 39 prosecutor's office in Coyaima on suspicion of trafficking, manufacturing or carrying narcotics, with no court outcome reported.
🇨🇴 Vereda La Esperanza, Saldaña, Tolima · Colombia
Tolima department police detained two 16-year-old boys during a surveillance
patrol in the vereda La Esperanza, in the municipality of Saldaña, Tolima, and
then arrested an adult.[1]The three were handed to the local 39 prosecutor’s
office in the neighbouring municipality of Coyaima and were to answer on charges
of trafficking, manufacturing or carrying narcotics.[1]
A search of one of the detainees found about 80 doses of marijuana and 10 doses
of bazuco, the cocaine base sold in small doses in Colombia.[1]Police said
the detainees would be brought before the courts.[1]
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Police handout photo published with the report on the three detainees in Saldaña, captioned 'Foto: Suministrada' (photo supplied), with no named photographer or agency credit.Photo details
The article gives no date for the patrol or the detention; 2 November 2018 is its publication date and is used as the incident date.
The seizure is reported only as about 80 doses of marijuana and 10 doses of bazuco, with no weight, so no cannabis kilogram figure is recorded.
The patrol was in the vereda La Esperanza of Saldaña but the detainees were left with a prosecutor's office in Coyaima; the account does not explain the reason.
It is not reported which of the three detainees was searched and found with the drugs.
The age of the adult and any names are not published, and the police force's full internal unit is not given.
No prosecutor's decision, charge sheet, measure of restraint or court outcome was reported.
Only one accessible account of this detention was found after searching in Spanish.
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