Colombian army troops seized 1.7 tonnes of pressed marijuana in the jurisdiction of Santander de Quilichao, in northern Cauca.[1][2] The operation began at a military checkpoint when the driver ignored the stop signal and fled.[1][3][2] Motorized troops of Mountain Battalion No. 8 pursued the vehicle and intercepted it, taking 1,700 kilograms of pressed marijuana out of circulation.[1][3] The seized marijuana was of the ‘creepy’ type.[3] The load had come from greenhouses in the north of the department.[3] Officers captured one person and immobilized one van-type truck in the operation.[1] The captured person, the vehicle and the seized substance were placed at the disposal of the judicial authorities.[1][3][2]

The army’s Third Division attributed the load to the Dagoberto Ramos structure of the FARC dissidents and said the structure would stop receiving more than 425 million pesos.[1][3][2] The acting commander of Brigade 29, Colonel Juan Camilo Vela, gave the official account of the checkpoint, pursuit and inspection.[1] According to preliminary information, the marijuana was possibly destined for illegal markets in Central America, Europe and the United States.[1][3][2]