They were intercepted while transporting the shipment in a speedboat to Central America.
After their arrest in flagrante delicto near Serranilla cay, in San Andrés, a prosecutor from the Specialized Directorate against Drug Trafficking brought three Colombian and two Hondurans citizens before a judge as they were transporting more than three tons of cocaine hydrochloride in a speedboat.
They were charged with trafficking, manufacture or possession of aggravated narcotics; and they must serve a custodial sentence. The people involved are: Alberto Guerrero, Jhon Jairo Bedoya Palacios, Waldy Janeison Franco Dávila; and the foreign citizens Walter Adonay López Rivas and Marlon Edgardo Damas Puerto.
National Navy arrested these people after asking them several times to stop and followed them through national waters.
During the inspection of the boat, the officers found 3,383 rectangular packages with cocaine, which weighed 3.3 tons; a GPS locator, six cell phones, two radios, two satellite phones, 753,000 Colombian pesos and 143 Honduran lempiras, both amounts in cash.
The Office of the Attorney General makes this information public for reasons of general interest.
The information contained in this press release corresponds to the narration of the objective news provided by the officials in charge of carrying out criminal investigations within the Office of the Attorney General. By the time this communication is disclosed, the legal status of the people mentioned is still pending to be resolved by the competent judicial authority, always under the presumption of innocence contemplated by Article 29 of the Political Constitution and Article 7 of Law 906 of 2004.