During the weekend, during a police operation, four people were arrested, but then they were released.
An apparent clandestine track related to drug trafficking activities was found in the Balzar canton, Guayas province, by agents of the Anti-Narcotics Investigations Unit (UIAN).
According to the uniformed officers, the illicit activities would have been committed on weekends, between 9:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m.
Authorities announce two investigations to determine the causes of the explosion on the Montecristi hill radar
During the previous weekend, four people who were released after the flagrante delicto hearing, according to preliminary information, were apprehended.
The prosecutor in the case did not consider that there was flagrante delicto, a decision that was later accepted by a judge of the Multicompetent Judicial Unit based in Balzar, reported Teleamazonas.
The supposed track is located in the La Trampa sector, it is 1,500 meters long by 30 wide. And to enable it it would have taken about three months.
According to information received by the UIAN agents, last weekend a plane with drugs was expected to land, for which an operation was carried out in which four men were arrested, including a former member of the National Police. who were waiting in a truck, according to what happened.
Ammunition, rifles, night sights and other objects were found in their possession.
Armed Forces find 40 sites in Manabí that could serve as clandestine runways for drug planes
The province of Manabí is one of the territories where more clandestine leads related to drug trafficking have been detected this year.
For this reason, a radar was installed on the Montecristi hill to reinforce the control of these crimes. However, at the beginning of November the device was left without working, the product of an explosion registered eleven days after it was enabled for air traffic control in the area. (I)
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