1.6 tons of cocaine in packages with CNN logo seized in Ecuador

The Ecuadorian police conducted an operation to seize a large shipment of cocaine in the province of Esmeraldas in the north-west of the country, in total, law enforcement officers found about 1.6 tons of the drug, some of the packages of which were marked with the logo of the American television channel CNN. This was reported by the country's police on August 12.

"The police conducted an operation in San Gregorio, Muisne, as a result of which 1,611 packages of cocaine hydrochloride with a total weight of about 1.6 tons were seized," reads a post on the social network X (ex. Twitter).

According to the police, this area was identified as a possible place of storage and further transportation of prohibited substances.

It is specified that during the operation, law enforcement officers found 40 bags of cocaine hydrochloride, as well as a speedboat, two outboard engines and about 900 liters of fuel, which, presumably, could be used to transport drugs by sea.

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