In their firm mission to pursue and punish the micro-trafficking of controlled substances, agents of the National Directorate of Drug Control and members of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, supported by the National Police, seized more than half a million grams of different narcotics in multiple interdiction operations, carried out during the last 20 days of January.
In the joint work, 294,385 grams of cocaine, 293,141 of marijuana, 9,918 doses of crack, 8.8 grams of tusi, 1.90 of heroin, 12.60 of hashish, 56.10 grams of methamphetamines and 223 ecstasy pills, for a total of 597,524 grams, were seized.
During the operations and raids, 2,452 people were arrested, from whom 12 firearms, 60 machetes and knives, 10 vehicles, 118 motorcycles, 696 cell phones, 59 communication radios, two bulletproof vests, 202 scales, and three slot machines, among other evidence, were seized.
In total, the authorities carried out 5,545 operations and some 126 raids to dismantle dozens of points of sale of narcotic substances and arrest individuals linked to this crime.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office and the DNCD have continued to expand their operational capacity against drug trafficking and sale as part of the new strategies deployed throughout the national territory to prosecute and punish illicit through Law 50-88 on drugs and controlled substances.
In 2024, the authorities managed to take more than 13 million grams of different narcotics off the streets, figures that are unprecedented in the fight against micro-trafficking in the country.
