The Investigative Police (POI) reported an operation in which dismantled a clandestine drug laboratory that operated in the communes of Santiago and Quinta Normal and that left five people detained.
In the place, located on the corner of the streets Maipú and Rosas, A modern laboratory and various narcotics were found, totaling more than 8,800 doses, valued at 65 million pesos.
Furthermore, they seized two firearms and almost a hundred ammunition for various types of weapons.
«This property had been taken over for many years and was being used for various crimes, mainly drug trafficking. We managed to arrest five foreigners, all of Colombian nationality and all were irregularly in the country. One of them had a record of violating Law 20,000 (on drugs),» the subprefect explained. Jaime Lazohead of the Santiago Criminal Investigation Brigade.
«We found a large amount of hydrochloride high purity cocaine, more than two kilos, also more than three kilos of cannabis sativa, and a large amount of cocaine base. But what caught our attention was the large amount of ammunition what this person said, which suggests that, if it does not belong directly to that firearm that we seized, they may provide for other people«added the detective.
The detainees will go to detention control during this day.