One of the tasks of the anti-narcotics police in Villavicencio is to man the checkpoint on the outskirts of the city.
An unusually high number of hay deliveries arouses the suspicion of the agents.
Hidden inside the bales they find almost 500kg of marijuana.
The marijuana is neatly packaged for export in parcels of 1kg.
The parcels are counted and individually labelled.
Samples are taken and sent to a lab for testing.
The driver of the truck and his passenger are arrested and sent to police HQ for questioning.
The marijuana haul is one of the biggest for this unit in years.
When the unit gets a tip-off about a suspected Farc rebel hiding in a local hotel they decide to raid the place. The Farc rebels finance themselves mainly through the drugs trade.
They search the suspect's room for evidence of links to Colombia's main rebel group. They have been told he is the explosives expert for the Farc's 10th division.
They find an illegally held pistol, ammunition, handcuffs and Farc propaganda material, but no explosives.
In this case, the suspect did not offer any resistance but the police are heavily armed just in case.
While they are disappointed they did not find any explosives, the men are pleased when they are told the evidence is sufficient for the suspect to be charged with illegal gun possession and rebellion.
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