The Police seize a truck and more than 7 cubic meters of forest products in Puente Lucia

The Police of the 8 Zone, announced that this Thuesday in the early hours of the morning agents of the Environmental Protection Unit (UPMA), have seized in the bridge Lucia of the Daule way 7.24m3 0f boards, leaves and pieces of the species Laurel and Fernán Sánchez.

During the operation installed for the control of flora and fauna, the police officers alert to the passage of vehicles loaded with forest products, stopped the Hyundai truck, white PYA-07 plate, for a routine record and verify that no there are new developments, said the Major. Wilson Coloma Altamirano, chief of the UPMA.

During the procedure the police officers requested the driver of the truck Arsenio Gilberto A.H., present the documentation for the mobilization of the forest product, noting that in the document presented there was a change of species, without mentioning at any time that these are tables, leaves and pieces of the species Laurel and Fernán Sanchez.

Before the occurrence, indicated the Major. Wilson Coloma said that the individual has been informed to the Ministry of Environment (MAE), that aware of the operation legalized The retention of the vehicle and the wood, proceeding to transfer the evidence to a private garage until the competent authority decides the pertinent. (Oswaldo Trujillo P. DNCE, 8 Zone)