Antofagasta Prosecutor's Office Claims to Have Seized the Largest Amount of Marijuana in National History

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A traffic accident on a complex route in the Antofagasta Region allowed the Public Prosecutor’s Office to seize, according to its own estimates, the highest amount of marijuana nationwide. According to Carabineros, the road accident took place on route B-710, in a sector recognized for its dangerous curves: the Paposo slope. “We mainly think that due to the inclementities, the difficulties inherent in the slope, (the driver) loses control of the…

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OS7 Carabineros seized more than four tons of marijuana on Route B-710 (road to Paposo), Antofagasta Region. “This is the largest seizure in the history of our country. Today the Antofagasta Region has been truly strangling organized crime,” said General Cristian Montre Soto, head of the Antofagasta Carabineros Zone. The procedure began on the morning of November 21, when a truck flew at kilometer 26 of Route B-710, an accident that left a decea…

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Cargo was hidden in a truck that crashed on the Paposo slope, so with this procedure, seizures this year in the region already total 32.6 tons.

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Drug seizures continue to rise in the Antofagasta Region, which is heading for a historic year in this type of proceedings. Now, more than four tons of marijuana that were transported to the central area of the country, were seized by the Prosecutor’s Office and Carabineros on route B-710, in the sector known as Paposo coast. The illicit was exposed last Friday after the dump of a truck in an area of curves of the said road, an accident where th…

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The cargo, valued at about 8 billion pesos, was hidden in a truck to the south of the country that was hit on route B-710. The driver of the vehicle died and the number of drugs seized this year in the Antofagasta Region already exceeds 32.6 tons. This article Historical Seizure: They seize more than 4 tons of marijuana after dumping truck on the Paposo slope was originally published in El Diario de Antofagasta.