Colombian anti-narcotics police on Tuesday seized 3.8 tons of marijuana allegedly belonging to the country’s largest rebel group, FARC.
The drug shipment was confiscated in a truck on the Pan-American highway in the southwestern Valle del Cauca department, newspaper El Espectador reported.
The drugs had a purported final destination of Medellin, where it would have been sold on the street by local gangs known as “combos,” according to the report.
Police said the marijuana, known as “Punto Rojo,” was grown by the Sixth Front of the FARC in the Cauca mountains in southwestern Colombia.
According to the authorities, FARC rebels are increasingly using the Pan-American highway to smuggle drugs out of their base areas in southwestern Colombia to major cities like Cali and Medellin.