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Colombian Navy and National Police seize more than 600 kilos of Cocaine in Santa Marta

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October 13, 2018 (Google Translation) – In a coordinated operation of patrolling and inspection of motor ships, Coast Guard units of the National Navy and the Judicial Police, seized 608 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride that were in a container inside a motorboat located in the Port Society of the city of Santa Marta, in the department of Magdalena. The units of the National Navy and the Judicial Police, during the inspection of the motorboat named “HAMMONIA HUSUM”, with registration 9326835 and the flag of Monrovia, which was docked at Pier…

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US, International Partners Interdict Half Ton of Cocaine, Rescue Four Suspects

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Crews from the U.S. Coast Guard, Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations (AMO), coastal patrol ship USS Zephyr (PC 8) and ARC 07 de Agosto intercepted a low-profile go-fast vessel (LPGFV) and seized more than 1,000 pounds of cocaine in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, April 7. During a routine counter-narcotics patrol, an AMO P-3 aircraft detected an LPGFV, which is a custom made ocean-going, high-speed motor boat built by drug traffickers to smuggle large quantities of illegal drugs. The boats are primarily made of fiberglass and they travel…

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Colombian Navy Seized 700 kilos of Cocaine in the Pacific Ocean

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Google Translation So far this year, the Pacific Naval Force has seized more than 95 tons of cocaine hydrochloride. Surface units of the National Navy attached to the Pacific Naval Force seized, in the last hours, 700 kilos of cocaine hydrochloride in the sea west of the municipality of Tumaco in Nariño. The operation carried out by the National Navy in coordination with the National Police, was developed when a Tumaco Coastguard unit was deployed to an area on the high seas where 35 sealed packages had been abandoned, tied…

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Interdiction Exercises sea and air between Panama and Colombia

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Google Translation April 26, 2017 – The National Navy of Colombia, the Colombian Air Force and National Air Service of Panama, SENAN, began yesterday the Binational Exercise Maritime Interdiction and Air Pancol II, which will be held until Friday, April 28, in the Pacific, with the aim of standardizing procedures internationally to deny the use of air and maritime space in the commission of transnational crimes, as well as emergency care at sea. For this operation, the Naval Force of the Pacific ocean patrol vessel ordered the ARC Valle del…

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