A coast guard boat of the Armed Forces, in coordination with the United States Navy, has stopped a vessel 150 miles northwest of the Galapagos Islands, where it has found 1.7 tons of controlled substances, on the morning of this Wednesday, December 14. February 2024.
When they felt discovered, the boat crew tried to flee. Two men of Ecuadorian nationality have been captured and 50 packages with the illicit substance were seized.
The Ecuadorian coast guard boat arrived at the Port of Esmeraldas this morning with the detainees and the packages of drugs.
On Tuesday in February, the Search Block, in coordination with the Colombian Navy, captured a semi-submersible “with several tons” of narcotics, without specifying how many in the note that was published in X.
