The Anti-Drug Directorate seized 500 packages of cocaine base paste of the highest purity, in a warehouse located at kilometer 62 of the Panamericana Sur, in the district of Chilca, in Cañete. The drugs were transported in water tanker trucks.
Vicente Romero Fernández, Minister of the Interior, was in charge of verifying the results of this operation and the ways in which the drug was transported in water tankers from the Vraem to this warehouse, in Chilca.
The Police arrested five people, among them the driver of the tanker, Jesús Quispe, captured a few weeks ago by some people, who were going to pay him between 1,500 and 2,000 soles for carrying out this work. The operation took place simultaneously in Cañete and Huancayo .
This drug shipment, according to the authorities, is valued at 20 million dollars in Europe. The packages are being weighed, to be later transferred to the city of Lima.
