Ecuador robbers who made off with 2.8 tonnes of drugs caught

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Source: BBC

Ecuador robbers who made off with 2.8 tonnes of drugs caught

11 April 2022

Police in Ecuador say they have caught robbers who stole 2.8 tonnes of drugs from a government-run warehouse.

Four men disguised as police broke into the warehouse in the city of Tena on Sunday and overpowered the lone officer on duty before making off with the massive haul, officials said.

Six suspects have been arrested and a lorry full of drugs seized, the counter-narcotics police chief said.

He did not say which drug was stolen but said the haul would be destroyed.

The contraband had been previously seized during drug raids and was being stored as evidence in a warehouse belonging to Ecuador's Technical Drugs Secretariat, the government body tasked with preventing and combating drug use.

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Police seized a lorry they said was used to steal 2.8 tonnes of illegal drugs from a warehouse (Ecuadorean Police)

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