Police Arrest Suspected Methamphetamine Distributor in Colón
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- El Salvador’s National Civil Police arrested 24-year-old Elmer Eliseo Perdomo Bonilla in Colón, La Libertad Oeste.
- Police said they seized methamphetamine, cash, two mobile phones, a digital scale, a laptop and a drone.
- Officers found the drugs in a wallet during an inspection of the tractor-trailer he was driving.
El Salvador’s National Civil Police arrested Elmer Eliseo Perdomo Bonilla, 24, in Colón, La Libertad Oeste, on suspicion of illicit drug trafficking.
Police said they seized portions of methamphetamine, cash, two mobile phones, a digital scale, a laptop and a drone during the operation.
Perdomo Bonilla was driving a tractor-trailer parked at kilometer 29 of the road toward Sonsonate when officers stopped him. During an inspection of the vehicle’s interior, they found a wallet containing the drugs. He will be referred for prosecution on an illicit drug trafficking charge.
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