:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/75POJBAIDRBVJHK36ZZHXSB22Y.jpg "Two police officers were arrested for stealing 45 kg of cocaine seized in Buenaventura")
In an operation of National Police advance in the last hours, two police officers from the section of Buenaventura (Cauca Valley) They were arrested for allegedly stole 45 kilos of cocaine which had been seized by the authorities in the region about 20 days ago.
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According to information obtained by the On the Radioagents were identified as Assistant Superintendent Mario Alexander Bonilla there he patrolman, Luis Alirio Correal Tovarwho apparently stole the shipment of cocaine hydrochloride as the count of the narcotic was postponed.
The events, according to the national police, happened more than 20 days ago inside the anti-narcotics section of Buenaventura, but this is only the last time monday 20 february when the authorities carried out the capture work.
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The sources consulted by Bogota radio indicated that the two uniformed officers have already been placed at the disposal of the Attorney General’s Office, an entity before which they will have to answer for crimes of trafficking, manufacture or possession of aggravated narcotics as inappropriate paternity.
Remember that this is not the first arrest of a group of uniformed officers in recent months for having been involved in the theft of a shipment of narcotics seized in the country.
On September 7, 2022, three uniformed officers attached to the Medium Magdalen Font they were captured by CTI of the Public Prosecutor’s Office for the alleged theft of three kilos of cocaine who had disappeared in July after a seizure operation on a road in the department of Santander.
“As part of Full Transparency Policythe Magdalena Medio Police Department has given its full support and will continue to provide the information required by the CTI of the Public Prosecutor’s Office in the investigation that has led to the arrest, by court order, of three National Police officers.The authorities informed by a press release.
Due to the events for which the three uniformed officers were arrested, according to the authorities’ investigation, which took place on June 10, 2022, the subjects were charged with the crimes of possession and trafficking of narcotics and diversion by appropriation.
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Due to the agents’ capture, the command of the Magdalena Medio Police Department ordered the initiation of a disciplinary investigation.
“In order to establish the circumstances of time, manner and place that surrounded the events, we immediately ordered the initiation of the disciplinary investigation,” reads the statement shared by the Magdalena Medio police.
Regarding the operation during which the shipments of cocaine were seized, which would then be stolen by the detained police officers, the authorities specified that it occurred on June 10, 2022 on the road which connects the sector of The Lizama with him municipality of cimitarra.
“In the recording, control and analysis activities, officers in road quadrant uniforms stop a truck-type vehicle that has traveled the Cali – Cartagena routewhen inspecting the vehicle, they are hidden between PVC material, 20 bags with 490 parcels wrapped in tape containing the alkaloid”authorities said at the time.
According to the Magdalena Medio police, in total they were seized 491 kilograms of cocaine rated in 2,455 million pesos.
After the seizure process was completed and the cargo transferred to the premises of the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation, according to the authorities, the personnel began the recount of the alkaloid to destroy it, and that is when they noticed that more than 11 kilos of the alkaloid.
Apparently, when the investigation began, the uniformed officers returned some of the stolen cocaine, however, because three kilos were still in their possession, for this reason they were charged with the crimes of possession and trafficking of narcotics and diversion by appropriation.