San Pedro Sula, Cortés.
This Sunday morning, members of the Technical Agency for Criminal Investigation (Atic) found at least 60 pounds of alleged cocaine in a cove under the straw of a truck coming from a sector of Columbus’ department.
Inside the fake compartment it was verified that the packages of the alleged cocaine have the mark “888”. The operation stemmed from an anonymous complaint and surveillance and follow-up work by the Attic Organized Crime Department to a criminal organization operating from Columbus to Guatemala.
The truck was moved to the facilities of the Public Ministry (MP), Always in San Pedro Sula, for their respective inspection. The goal, the driver of the truck he was arrested for research purposes.
Earlier it was also reported about the seizure of 819 kilos of drugs northeast of Fall Grossa, Caratasca Lagoon, Thank God. The bundles were found in a small boat carrying five men.
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These are Jesús Ramón Montaño Carreño, Francisco Javier Romero, Jairo Ismael Barreto Roses, Julio Rafael Ramos Miranda and Junior David Boada Farfán, four of them of Venezuelan nationality and one Colombian.
The insured vessel and the suspects were transferred to the Caratasca naval base for a rigorous inspection and quantification of the packages before being transferred through the Honduran Air Force (FHA) to the capital.
Meanwhile, Honduran authorities cremated a coca plantation owned by drug traffickers experimenting with crops in the northeastern department of Columbus on Saturday.
A statement from the Armed Forces noted that authorities burned a plantation “with an approximate 40,000 leaf bushes and seedlings in a nursery “, in a mountain in the jurisdiction of the municipality of Llimona. Likewise, the dismantling of a narcolaboratory to prosecute cocaine during an operation executed with prosecutors and judges on the same crop.
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Similarly, in the last hours, through an inspection, the national police through the National Anti-Drug Police Directorate (DNPA), in coordination with agents of the National Directorate of Border Police Services (DNSPF), assigned to the place of Cortes port control, confiscated more than 200 kilograms of supposed hydrochloride of cocaine, requiring a drug trafficking suspect.
The action was carried out on the road leading to the river Tulián, through an inspection carried out on a truck, white, with plates HAJ2251, in which more than 200 packages of alleged illicit substance were found, which it came hidden in a fake compartment of the car.
It also proceeded to require a 45-year-old Honduran citizen for research purposes, to be held responsible for the illicit drug trafficking. According to investigations, the detainee was hired by a criminal drug trafficking structure that carries out its illicit activities by land from the corridor of Columbus, Atlantis and Cortés, to head to the Republic of Guatemala.
Police officers proceeded to pack the evidence collected and then send it to the Forensic Toxicology Laboratory for analysis and opinion.
The Honduran government has reiterated that there is “an air, sea and land shield offensive against drug cartels carrying cocaine from South America to the United States market.”