{"id":237689,"date":"2021-04-18T12:23:09","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T16:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=237689"},"modified":"2021-04-18T12:23:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T16:23:09","slug":"drug-shipment-intercepted-in-baracoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/drug-shipment-intercepted-in-baracoa\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug shipment intercepted in Baracoa"},"content":{"rendered":"

A shipment of 929.32 kilograms of <\/span>marijuana<\/span><\/a> was intercepted by the Cuban authorities last week to the north of the province of Guant\u00e1namo, the island\u2019s official media <\/span>reported<\/span><\/a> this Saturday<\/span><\/p>\n

The border guard troops stopped the drug trafficking operation in which three Bahamian citizens were involved aboard a speedboat, in an action where 66 bales with 406 packages of marijuana were confiscated, between the drugs thrown into the sea and the one hidden inside the boat.<\/span><\/p>\n

The note specifies that the boat with two outboard motors, with papers from one of the islands of the Bahamas, was detected on April 10 at around 6:00 p.m. by the Visual Observation Service of the Radio Technical Post of the eastern Baracoa region.<\/span><\/p>\n

After neutralizing one of the engines, the Bahamians showed resistance, disobeyed the arrest order, began throwing the drug into the sea and to pour a fuel tank inside the vessel, in order to set fire to the boat to eliminate the evidence and jump into the sea.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cuba impidi\u00f3 el tr\u00e1fico de toneladas de drogas a EEUU, seg\u00fan autoridades cubanas<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n