Nicaragua’s anti-drug forces and navy on Wednesday began an operation seeking the ringleaders of the drug group Millennium Cartel, said the police.
Operation Pacific Storm is a follow-up to the operations on Monday and Tuesday. On Tuesday, six cartel members were arrested on the beach at Salina Grande in Leon Department, some 93 km northeast to the capital.
On Monday, in Operation Tenacious, 11 cartel members, including Guatemalans, Hondurans, Salvadorians and Nicaraguans, were arrested.
All these operations, after months of intelligence work, “have been a success until now,” police spokesman Alonso Sevilla told local media.
He said the police will continue the anti-drug efforts along the Pacific coast as those “traffickers are trying to attack the Pacific coast because we have hit their Atlantic Ocean routes.”
About eight tons of cocaine and 41 kg of heroin had been seized so far this year, said Sevilla, and 50 Mexicans, Salvadorians, Guatemalans, Hondurans and Nicaraguans had been detained in 2007.
The smuggling group takes drugs from Colombia via Mexico to the United States.
