Police in Cartagena have seized 1.5 tons of cocaine in a container that was to be shipped to Honduras, en route to the US, local media sources reported Monday.
El Universal reported the driver of the truck, Alexander Valencia Enrique Navas, was arrested in the process of delivering the container to the city’s maritime terminal, and is to be charged for drug trafficking and possession of narcotics.
Police will further investigate whether any employees in the marine terminal were complicit in the planned shipment of drugs.
The cocaine has an estimated value of $5 million, and has come on the heels of an announcement by President Juan Manuel Santos that 2012 has already witnessed the largest amount of drugs seized by police in the nation’s history.