Three people who wanted to bring cocaine to Europe are captured in El Dorado

The anti-narcotics department of the police also established that one of those captured was to deliver drugs to Central America. In all three cases, the drug was hidden in luggage and, in total, was valued at almost one million dollars.

The Anti-Narcotics Directorate of the National Police found and captured three people who, disguising cocaine in their luggage, were trying to traffic drugs to various international destinations. Those captured, according to authorities, used increasingly advanced methods of concealment to be imperceptible to anti-narcotics checks carried out by police in air terminals.

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The first capture took place when a patrol ship profiled a 56-year-old Dominican citizen who was planning to travel to Paris from El Dorado Airport. Once his luggage was inspected, 12 rectangular packages of a white powdered substance were found, which were tested. narco test, showed a light blue color, ie a preliminary result for cocaine, with a net weight of almost 12,000 grams.

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The second capture was made through the international passenger control service at the El Dorado airport dock, when one of the uniformed officers inspected the checked baggage belonging to a citizen of Ecuadorian nationality. The man intended to travel to Madrid (Spain) carrying three bottles of vitamin supplement, a box of peaches, a jar of hair conditioner, a bag of condensed milk and a bag of shampoo, items in which police discovered a double bottom with cocaine.

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The third capture corresponds to a 39-year-old Colombian woman who was trying to travel to the city of Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) when she was detected by an anti-narcotics agent and her canine. In the luggage he was carrying in the hold, he contained a diary with a double bottom and inside two packages with a pink and yellow powder substance which, when performing a field test, produced a preliminary result for 2CB (Two-cb). .