Approximately three tons of drugs were seized in the Buena Fe canton, Los Ríos province, during Operation Armageddon, executed by the National Police.
The Minister of the Interior, Juan Zapata, published the information through his Twitter account.
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There he indicated that during the raids carried out on a Buena Fe farm, two people were arrested and 30 jute bags, ammunition, firearms and a drone were also seized.
The Police obtained information from the place where considerable amounts of illegal substances were collected and based on that the operation was structured.
During this week, within the framework of actions of the operation called Interca, around two tons were seized on highways in Los Ríos, Guayas, Manabí and Carchi.
In that police intervention, three people, vehicles, ammunition and cash were apprehended.
“In this way we are carrying out the interception on highways, so that the substances subject to control can be intercepted at these points and prevent them from reaching the cities and, obviously, producing those acts of violence that occur in the cities,” General Pablo Ramírez, director of Anti-drug Investigation, expressed at a press conference.
In Los Ríos, more than 350 packages of cocaine hydrochloride had been hidden or hidden in a truck. Meanwhile, in Daule, Guayas jurisdiction, a bus carrying 699 brick-type packages with the same substance was intercepted.
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In Carchi, in the Montúfar district, 30 packages of marijuana were found in a truck. In Manabí, in the Canoa parish, Sucre district, 300 packages of cocaine hydrochloride in eight sacks were seized.
Throughout 2022, 201 tons of drugs were seized in Ecuador; seizures at ports increased by 42%. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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