Local February 17, 2023 - 9:00 am

Packages of cocaine confiscated in Ensanche Piantini

The National Directorate for Drug Control (DNCD) announced this Friday that the 30 packages seized during a raid conducted in collaboration with the Public Ministry in an apartment in the exclusive sector Ensanche Piantini, National District, tested positive for cocaine. The drug weighed 30.94 kilograms according to the anti-narcotics agency.

It should be noted that the authorities conducted a joint operation in a residential area of the Ensanche, where they arrested four men, to whom coercive measures will be known in the next few hours.

The Public Ministry and the DNCD continue to deepen the investigation into this case.

 

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