The operation allowed to impact 4 criminal organizations, clarify four homicides that were perpetrated this year in Santa Marta, remove more than 1000 doses of narcotics from the market and seize cash and firearms.
In development of the prioritization plan created by the Office of the Attorney General to counteract criminal phenomena, the Delegate Office on Public Safety through the Sectional Directorate in Magdalena, National Police and the Army implemented a strategy during 4 days against murder (mainly the practice of hiring hitmen) and microtrafficking in that Department.
The operations carried out by CTI, Dijín, police authorities in Santa Marta, soldiers of Gaula (Army) and members of Battalion (Batallón de Alta Montaña) in neighborhoods such us Pescaíto, Gaira and María Eugenia, among others, and also in municipalities of Ciénaga and Sitionuevo allowed to arrest 54 people (28 by a court order and 26 in flagranti).
Two other people were notified in prison Rodrigo de Bastidas in the city of Santa Marta.