The National Customs Service revealed that they intercepted a million-dollar cocaine and marijuana smuggled in the car of an electromechanical engineering student. The detection was recorded at the El Loa outpost, 150 kilometers south of Iquique, in Chile.
El Head of Customs Inspection of Iquique, Ricardo Aceituno Chau, said that during the controls on vehicles and goods leaving the region, "the vehicle of a young man who was traveling from Iquique to Caldera was selected for a special inspection. In this way and with theThe use of non-invasive technology"It was established that there were packages containing drugs in the vehicle's structure," he said.
The auditors found 23 packages containing a total of 24 kilos 200 grams of hydrochloride cocaine and other 10 packages with 4 kilos 600 grams of marihuana, which can reach $507 million pesos in the informal market.
The driver of the vehicle works as a machine operator and studies electromechanical engineering. The drugs, the accused and the evidence were handed over to the police on duty.
The arrest was carried out at the Iquique Court of Guarantee and the prosecutor Juan Zepeda formally charged the accused as the author of the crime of drug trafficking in the completed degree. The magistrate Tamara Muñoz decreed the legal arrest and established the precautionary measure of preventive detention during the 120 days that were set as the investigation period.
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