Colombia: They found more than 1,000 kilos of marijuana with the faces of Pablo Escobar and Bin Laden

It was not a cargo of drugs like any other: in every package of marijuana that the Colombian authorities seized on Tuesday were the faces of Pablo Escobar and Osama bin Laden.

The cargo – detected in a region of Causa Department, in the southwest of the country – weighed more than one and a half tons, would have a value of more than half a million dollars in the illegal market and everything indicates that it was destined to be sent to Central America.

Colonel Fabio Rojas, commander of the Cauca police, said The badociated press these drug traffickers used the faces of Escobar and bin Laden – both dead – "to secure the shipped product".

The police pointed Twitter the drug was transported inside the body of a vehicle carrying mattresses and was detected by the traffic police. The driver was arrested and, according to the Attorney General's office, must answer for the crime of drug trafficking.

Colonel Rojas said at a press conference that a group of traffic police had carried out checks and searches in this area when they had detected camouflaged marijuana.

Escobar, head of the Medellin cartel, died there on December 2, 1993, during clashes with the Colombian authorities. Osama bin Laden died during a US military operation on May 2, 2011 in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

So far this year, police in Cauca have seized more than 22 tons of marijuana, it was reported.