Police Saturday busted a municipal employee of the Pacific port of Puntarenas for using a truck intended to haul trash to run shipments of cocaine, according to a statement from the Public Security Ministry.
The employee, identified by the last name Reyes, 49, was driving a truck belonging to the Pacific Port Authority (INCOP) carrying more than one ton of cocaine. With him was a local fisherman identified by the last name Gómez, 27.
The port authority had loaned the municipality the truck to collect trash at the beach in Puntarenas.
After receiving calls that suspicious activity was going on in the nearby town of Barrancas, police intercepted the INCOP truck in Puntarenas and discovered 58 bags containing 1,125 one-kilogram packets of cocaine.
Reyes and Gómez were arrested and face drug trafficking charges before the Prosecutor's Office.
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