With Super Tucano planes of the Immediate Reaction Force, one of the drug planes that tried to take drugs from an area of the Santa Elena peninsula was captured.
The Ecuadorian Air Force (FAE) indicated that an interdiction operation of two unidentified traffickers (TNI) began on the afternoon of April 23. The airspace surveillance and control system ordered the takeoff of the Super Tucanos once these illegal operations were detected.
With this action, the capture of a plane that was trying to take illicit substances from a commune of the Chanduy parish, in the south of Santa Elena, was achieved. The second ship left the airspace, according to the FAE.
Narcoplane was intercepted in the Chanduy parish
The Cessna model drug plane with US license plate N1997D was abandoned on Saturday night on the road that leads to the Engunga commune.
He landed on a ballasted road in order to ship an important shipment of cocaine that was hidden in the middle of the vegetation of a natural channel through which a river passes; however, after noticing the police presence, the occupants of the aircraft fled.
The agents noticed that a car was speeding past the side of the plane, but when they asked him to stop, he ignored it.
In air operations carried out for more than 10 hours, the #FAE interdicted two unidentified trafficking. Here, the images of the electro-optical sensors of the flight teams in the interdiction mission carried out in the early hours of this Sunday, April 24, 2022. pic.twitter.com/hbRMjqZHi9
– Ecuadorian Air Force (@FuerzaAereaEc) April 24, 2022
After a search operation, the abandoned vehicle was found in a ravine.
Édison Miranda, deputy chief of the Santa Elena Police, confirmed that after the persecution the drug traffickers used their firearms, but this attack was repelled by anti-narcotics agents.
The rear seats were removed from the ship so that the fuel cans could enter and by means of a pump they intended to refuel in the air.
One of the Police intelligence gendarmes confirmed that the alert was sent by the Armed Forces, in which they reported the arrival in the country of unidentified trafficking (TNI).
After the follow-ups, they received the information that he was going to land in Engunga at around 01:00 on Sunday.
It is presumed that in the packages packed and placed in eight black bags there were 233,500 grams of cocaine hydrochloride, that is, a quarter of a ton of drug.
The shipment was transferred under strong military guard to the Salinas Antinarcotics Headquarters. It is presumed that the plane apparently arrived from Mexico and its destination was Central America.
It was indicated that it was modified in its structure because it had a coating with a sheet, in addition that there was stickers of an Indian It will also check if the board is cloned.
Among the evidence there were two boxes with miguelitos, nails that are thrown to avoid being persecuted, fuel cans, GPS, 42 9-millimeter caliber cartridges, 2 magazines loaded with 36 9-millimeter cartridges, in addition to $18,000 in cash and 2 satellite phones. It is not the first time that drug traffickers have operated near this town. In 2007, with the help of the DEA, five tons of drugs were seized. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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