A joint team led by the Valparaíso focus prosecutor with the Navy’s Dipolmar unit, Carabineros OS7, Customs and Peru’s National Police detected and seized 848.4 kilograms of creepy marijuana.[1][2] The drug had arrived by sea from Colombia.[1] Officers found it hidden in a container inside the installations of the Port of San Antonio.[3] Investigators said its final destination was the Dominican Republic.[3]

The load was packed in 40 boxes holding a total of 762 packages.[3] The authorities called the joint action Operación Independencia and linked its detection to cooperation with Peruvian authorities against the Colombia-origin load.[1] Authorities set its commercial value at 3,187,147,260 Chilean pesos.[3][2] Customs said profiling had flagged an elevated risk, so officers opened and inspected the cargo directly without using the scanner truck.[1] The prosecutor described the creepy marijuana as highly addictive with a significant health impact.[1]

The prosecutor said the seizure kept Chilean ports from being used as a transit route from producer countries to consumer destinations.[4] Carabineros zone chief Patricia Vásquez called the seizure of more than 830 kilos valued at more than 3,000 million pesos a joint success with the Maritime Police.[1]

The investigative work for Operación Independencia had taken four months.[5] The investigation was ongoing, with no arrests reported in the case at the time.[5]