Tuesday 29 January 2013

Colombian ministry reports drug arrests, equipment found

The Colombian Defence Ministry reported on 28 January several arrests and confiscations of equipment it cited as significant blows against international drug trafficking. It reported the arrests on 20 January and later of three leading members of a trafficking ring working in the San Andrés Archipelago in the Caribbean, and reputed to have sent drug shipments to Central America, Mexico and the United States. The detained were named as Amaury and Mario Smith Pomare and a deputy arrested after 20 January on the island of San Andrés, identified as Benjamín James Walters, the Ministry stated. The three, whom the ministry associated with one of Colombia's main gangs the Rastrojos, were likely to be investigated on drug trafficking and murder charges. The navy also found and confiscated at an unspecified date communication equipment thought to belong to the criminal gang called the Urabeños, in two localities in the western department of Chocó. These included radios, GPS equipment and related items used to direct boats on the high seas, as well as guns and bullets; the items were found under houses in the localities of Charambirá and Togoromá in the Litoral de San Juan district, the Defence Ministry stated on 28 January.

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