Almost three tons of marijuana seized in the Colombian Pacific

Bogotá.- The Colombian authorities seized almost three tons of marijuana in an operation carried out in the Colombian Pacific that left three detainees, the Navy reported this Sunday.

The chief of staff of the Task Force Against Drug Trafficking No.72 “Poseidon”, Lieutenant Colonel Lincoln Jaimes, said that members of the Navy “intercepted a boat manned by three foreign subjects that were transporting 96 sacks of marijuana” that at apparently they were destined for Central America.

The three captured, whose nationality or names were not reported, together with the cache and the boat, were transferred to the Tumaco Coast Guard Station (southwest), where officials from the Technical Investigation Corps (CTI), from the Prosecutor’s Office, They verified that the shipment was marijuana “with a net weight of 2,915 kilograms.”