In the last few hours, the Secretariat of Security and the Bogotá Metropolitan Police announced that in Cúcuta (Norte de Santander) They captured and prosecuted four women who were mobilizing 23 firearms on a public transport bus that were destined for the Colombian capital..
According to the commander of the Bogotá Metropolitan Police, Major General Eliécer Camacho, the capture, prosecution and seizure of the arms shipment was possible thanks to intelligence work and a human source that has collaborated with the authorities.
“These women were transporting firearms from Venezuela, and were probably going to be used in criminal activities, mainly in the towns of Bosa and Kennedy for the confrontation between different criminal groups for the seizure of criminal income,” explained the Major General. Camacho.
The four women were placed at the disposal of the competent authorities, and an intramural security measure was imposed on them while the process once morest them is carried out.
Regarding the operation, Major General Camacho added:
“This is a great blow to the criminal structures that want to affect the capital of the Republic and thanks to the work that we are doing in coordination with the Secretary of Security, with the Prosecutor’s Office, with the investigation section, with intelligence, with the model, it is that we have achieved a downward trend in the city of Bogotá during the current year 2022″.
In turn, the undersecretary of Security and Coexistence of Bogotá, Alejandro Londoño, pondered the operation in which the women were captured and the weapons were seized, which he described as “a very important result” and assured that these weapons “they were going to be used for robberies, homicides, extortion and threats once morest Bogota citizens”.
Likewise, he recalled that on July 21, thanks to the joint work between the Usaquén Local Mayor’s Office and the Bogota Metropolitan Police, two firearms, a blank and a submachine gun were seized in the Santa Cecilia Ata neighborhood.
Finally, he recalled that these operations are a “shows more of the commitment of the District authorities for the protection of life, property and the integrity of all Bogota citizens and this is shown in the descending figures that we have in homicides, thefts and extortions”.
In other operations, the Antinarcotics authorities made an important seizure in the city of Bogotá: a ton of cocaine, which was found thanks to the work of Black, a dog trained to detect drugs.
According to the authorities, Black is a dog that is part of the Airport Police work team and that, this week, alerted his co-workers regarding the presence of the drug in a nearby place: a parking lot located in the town of Fontibón and close to El Dorado airport.
The authorities arrived there following they received a complaint call to Line 167 in which they were told that two cargo vehicles, from Valle del Cauca, were loaded with drugs and were headed for Bogotá. More exactly, to a place very close to the air terminal, where apparently they would try to get her out of the country.
Two dump trucks were being kept at the site which, when sniffed by the dog, identified that they had drugs inside. The uniformed officers were surprised to analyze the vehicles and realize that the amount of cocaine stored there.
What triggered the alerts from the authorities is that there was no information at the site regarding who the vehicles belonged to, no one was responsible for the dump trucks that were being stored there.
In addition, when checking them, they realized that they were not loaded, a fact that caused Black to appear on the scene and determine if, in fact, the vehicles were empty.
“They use all concealment methods failing in each experiment, we are ahead analyzing, investigating and executing actions aimed at reducing traffic, with this seizure we prevented more than three million doses from reaching consumer markets in the world”, Colonel Julio Ernesto Triana Vergel, head of the Interdiction Office of the Antinarcotics Directorate, said in this regard.
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