Cortes, Honduras
The Honduran National Police seized more than 200 kilos of cocaine that was hidden on Saturday in a bus, during an operation in the department of Cortés, in the Caribbean of the country, and detained a man for the investigation.
The drug was discovered during an inspection carried out by agents from the National Directorate for Counter-Drugs in conjunction with the National Border Police Directorate in Puerto Cortés, the agency said.
The truck, driven by a 45-year-old man, was stopped by anti-drug police, who found the drug hidden in “a false compartment” of the vehicle.
The man, whose name was not specified by the authorities, was arrested on the grounds that he was responsible for the “illegal crime of drug trafficking to the detriment of the internal health of the state of Honduras, ”he added.
According to a preliminary police investigation, the detainee was’ hired by a criminal structure of the drug trafficking which carries out its illegal activities by land from the Colón, Atlántida and Cortés corridors to the Republic of Guatemala “.
The driver, the truck and the drugs were available to the authorities to continue the investigations.
Drug dealer
Honduras territory, mainly the Caribbean, is used by groups of South American drug traffickers who send cocaine shipments to the United States.
Honduran authorities seized a total of 858 kilograms of chemicals used to make synthetic drugs that arrived hidden in 181 boxes from the United States.
The cargo was shipped in a container entered by the National Port Company, in Puerto Cortés, and according to an investigation, the chemical was shipped as “printer ink”.
The seized substance is methyl ethyl ketone, known as 2-butanone, which is banned in Honduras because it is “used illegally in clandestine laboratories to produce cocaine hydrochloride,” police said.
Between 2014 and 2020, Honduran security forces dismantled 25 laboratories to produce synthetic drugs, destroyed more than 300 clandestine spores, 228,000 coca plants and more than 3 million marijuana, according to figures from the National Inter-Institutional Security Force (FUSINA).
In the reference period, they performed about 2 million surgeries and arrested more than 7,000 people for drug trafficking. EFE