The Special Prosecutor’s Office for Illicit Drug Trafficking Crimes (Fetid) of Callao and the Scorpion group of the Dirandro (PNP) seized a shipment of high purity drugs that would have been destined for the Sinaloa cartel.
The finding is the product of a long investigation that began the follow-up to Servando Garcia Castillo, alias ‘Pedrito’, since October last year.
“We had intelligence information that Servando García Castillo was an important character within the Peruvian criminal groups that are linked to international groups“, Comments the General PNP Raúl del Castillo, head of Dirandro, to Panorama.
García is identified as the main cocaine collector in the Huallaga area. He apparently traveled to Mexico to meet with Chapo Guzmán’s son in December of last year.
He returned to Lima and since then he would have arranged for 900 bricks with cocaine to be brought from Tocache, in the San Martín region, to a warehouse in Comas. From this last district, the shipment left for a house in the area known as La Cueva, in Cieneguilla.
A Panorama report notes that the 600-square-meter house was bought by a Mexican citizen. It was thanks to the monitoring and legal wiretapping of García that they were able to find that place.
Dirandro agents entered Cieneguilla’s home this week and, with the help of a specialized dog, found the cove where they kept the drugs. In total, they found 900 bricks, which amounted to 887 kilos of cocaine, whose value once it arrived in the United States would amount to 50 million dollars..
Likewise, they intervened three Mexican citizens, who were in charge of preparing the cove and transferring the drugs.
In parallel, the also Mexican was arrested Alejandro Mejía Gaspar at his home in La Molina, where he had $ 30,000 hidden in a small cove and a safe. Dirandro assures that it was he who coordinated the entire operation in Peru together with García, since both were seen meeting.
Mejía Gaspar told the anti-drug agents that he would accept all his responsibility and would not say anything for fear of reprisals against him and his family by the Sinaloa cartel.
“The presence of the Sinaloa cartel is quite worrying for Peru, and the blow that has been given to this organization is remarkable,” says General Del Castillo.
Drug trafficking, latest news:
–
– .