In the province of Manabí agents of the UIAN seize about 2 tons of cocaine

The National Anti-Narcotics Directorate of the National Police, reported that agents of the Anti-Narcotics Investigation Unit (UIAN) and the Intervention and Rescue Group of Zone 8, have implemented the operation «Ateneo II», which has Seized 1,525 brick-type packages contaminated with 1,795,265 grams of cocaine hydrochloride destined for international markets.

The operation took place on Thursday afternoon after the raid of a house located between Canoa and El Rosario, in the province of Manabí, where Wellington Temistocles G. B. was arrested, and more of the drug seized 2 firearms, ammunition and feeders. An operative officer noted that the results of the investigative management tasks carried out in the Cape Pasado sector, which is a prominent tip located northwest of the San Vicente canton.

It was pointed out that since March 1 the UIAN has deployed actions aimed at identifying a structure of drug traffickers dedicated to sending large quantities of drugs using speedboats that started from a geographically strategic point of difficult vehicular access, pedestrian and with no sign of communication.

The organization for the collection of the drug had adequate in the house raided compartments or subterranean excavations to hide the substance subject to control, factors and potentialities that facilitated the work of the members of this organization who taking advantage of the strategic location and favored by the periodic ones Conditions of the tide carried out operational and logistic coordinations for the shipment of GO-FAST speedboats.

The action will develop by the Police, allowed in the place to find two people in charge of the custody and dispatch of the cargo, nevertheless one of them when noticing the presence of the members of the tactical team and due to the wildness of the place managed to flee favored By the inhospitable of the site apprehending arrested Wellington Temistocles GB, being placed to orders of the competent authorities.

The 1,526 packets of rectangular form with a whitish substance that under test of field gave positive for cocaine with a weight of 1,795,265 grams, that were found hidden in one of the subterranean cavities covered with black plastic, were transferred to the Unit Antinarcotics of Bahía de Caráquez. (Oswaldo Trujillo Padilla, DNCE, Zone 8).