Preventive detention orders with imprisonment were issued for three individuals
A supervisory judge (juez de control de garantías) in Tumaco (Nariño) issued preventive detention orders with imprisonment for three crew members of a vessel which was transporting 600 kilos of cocaine in waters of the Pacific Ocean. Navy officers seized the drug.
The judge´s decision, which was based on an investigation conducted by National Office specialized in Antinarcotics and Money Laundering (Dirección de Fiscalía Nacional Especializada Antinarcóticos y Lavado de Activos), was notified to Sebastián Farrufia Rengifo, Willington Oviedo Pastrana and Ángel Alberto Palacios for aggravated drug trafficking offenses.