Colombian army, navy and aerospace units working with Peruvian police found 52 sacks holding about 1,900 kilograms of marijuana at Santa Rosa, Peru, a few metres from the Brazil-Colombia-Peru triple border.[1] Authorities arrested eight people in the action, seven Colombians and one Brazilian.[1] Those detained allegedly included the structure’s ringleader, described as the main organizer for moving drugs along illegal routes and hiding them in illegal depots on the triple border through alliances with criminal groups in neighbouring countries.[1] The command attributed the find to military-intelligence sharing under a binational operation with Peru that had begun several months earlier.[1]

Preliminary information said the load was bound for the streets of Brazil, and the forces said stopping it prevented distribution of a large number of doses.[1] The seized material and the eight detainees were to answer to the neighbouring country’s authorities for drug trafficking.[1] The same statement reported a separate second action in which 250 kilos were found in an illegal depot in Leticia, capital of Amazonas, where one person was captured.[1] The statement also reported 110 kilograms of marijuana found at Vila Bittencourt in Brazil’s Amazonas state, on the Caqueta river on the border with Colombia.[1]