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Largest shipment of heroin seized in Panama in a decade

08/02/2011 By Panama Eric

The shipment was ready to be sent by sea to other countries.

(Prensa.com) Police narcotics agents seized 639 kilograms of National pure heroin, the largest cargo found in recent decades in this country, today confirmed the first fiscal Drug Javier Caraballo. Caraballo said that the seizure occurred in the Jobe community in the Caribbean province of Colon, in an operation in which three people were arrested. In the coastal area, the police detained a car whose interior was packed and wrapped packages with tape, marked with distinctive trademark logos. The cargo was ready to be shipped by sea to other countries. On Monday, the prosecutor invited journalists to a measure in which experts with their faces covered with balaclavas confirmed through laboratory tests, the white powder was deposited in the heroin packets. Each kilogram of high purity heroin is quoted in the international market at about $ 120,000 and the Panamanian authorities recognized that forfeiture is a catch “exceptional.” Caraballo also revealed the seizure of 468 kilograms of cocaine in another police operation in areas of the city of Panama, where vehicles were inspected by officers at a checkpoint for the identification of criminal suspects. The prosecutor recalled that more than a month ago, police seized in night clubs in Panama City several synthetic drugs, including LSD and ecstasy being distributed to clients. In this regard, the police commissioner Omar Pinzon said the seizures have been developed in coordination with various sectors of security in this country for “short space” to groups that use Panama as a “bridge to the crimes.” For its part The Deputy Osvaldo Ureña, National Naval Service (Senan), noted that the allocation of more staff and equipment restreo use have contributed to the rapid detection of sea routes for the smuggling of cocaine and other test substance for. So far the year have been seized in P

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