Costa Rican Drug Control Police (PCD) detected during one of their routine revisions at APM Terminals in Limon a total of 954 kilograms of cocaine inside a container carrying a legal load of banana pulp with lemon concentrate.
According to the information released by the Ministry of Public Security, the 20 feet container had Belgium as its destination. Agents of the PCD detected 29 briefcases hidden among the legal load and counted 954 packages of the drug weighing approximately 1 kilogram each.
Michael Soto, Minister of Security, affirmed that so far this year the PCD has detected nine containers in the Limon ports carrying drugs and resulting in a total five and a half tons of cocaine.
In another police operation the authorities managed to confiscate 760 packages of cocaine in the area of Osa, Puntarenas, in the South Zone of the country.
The authorities received an anonymous tip that informed them of a group that was moving packages of drugs from a house to a vehicle, they immediately coordinated a raid to the house and intercepted the vehicle where the PCD found the packets of drugs hidden under a double lining wall. Officers also found three firearms.
In total at this point, 37.2 tons of drugs, between cocaine and marijuana, have been seized. (https://news.co.cr/costa-rican-police-finds-one-ton-of-cocaine-in-container-destined-to-belgium/80588/)
