Incautan over 282 kilos of cocaine valued at $ 7.2 million in Aguadilla

Agents of the Intelligence Division of the United Forces of Rapid Accession (FURA) in union with members of the United States Frontier Security Forces incautaron este martes 282.34 kilo de cocaína en Aguadilla.

According to a police informant, the Police Negotiator informs that the equivalent cargo in the market is 7,202,540.

If it is indicated that during the intervention, there will be five persons of “definite migration status” and a nationalized one. In addition, three occupied motor vehicles will be found.

The Federal Caribbean Corridor Strike Force Agency assumes jurisdiction over this case.

Hace diez días Agents de Operaciones Aéreas y Marinas (AMO) de Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza (CBP) intercept 204 kilos of cocaine launched from an ambush with three occupants near Culebra, isla-municipio de Puerto Rico, en el este, y, otra operation, the local police collects 217 kilos, in Manatí, in the north.

The value of the drug used in Manatí was $ 6,727,000 and the estimated value of the drug was $ 5.5 million.

Local and federal authorities occupy the Caribbean in fiscal year 2020, 32,709 kilograms of illicit drugs valued at $ 48.8 million.

This amount of money results in an increase of tens of millions of dollars in comparison with the fiscal year 2019, according to figures from the CBP on the frontier control efforts in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands in the United States during the fiscal years (2017- 2020).