the air forces of Brazil caught on Sunday, two planes carrying more than a ton of cocaine. About it reports the Agency EFE with reference to Federal police.
Two operations to intercept aircraft were held on Sunday almost at the same time near the city of Campo Grande. In the air was raised four fighter Super Tucano A-29 and helicopter FAB E-99. They forced the pilots of single-engine EMB-720 Minuano, and the twin-engine Beechcraft 58 Baron to put their cars on the ground. Aboard the first police discovered 450 kg of cocaine, the second – about 700 kg of the drug. Pilots who drove the first plane, the police arrested, but is in the second managed to escape before the pick-guards arrived. Currently, the police are looking for his owner.
it is Assumed that the drug was imported into Brazil from Bolivia. Both intercept became part of the “operation Aslyum” to combat international drug trafficking. It is noted that they were made thanks to the information obtained by the intelligence service of the Federal police.
