Police authorities in Venezuela arrested a 50-year-old man for manufacturing and trafficking fake drug packages with which he swindled drug traffickers.
According to a report issued by Douglas Rico, the director of the Scientific, Criminal and Criminalistic Investigations Corps (CICPC), authorities were conducting a security operation when they arrested the man identified as Rudith Alexander Martínez Salazar.
Rico revealed through a publication on social networks that during the police procedure they seized 50 "panela-type wrappers" containing pieces of cardboard and anime fibers that would be sold as packages of marijuana and sent to the Caribbean islands.
The police also found a phone containing conversations with drug traffickers, showing the modus operandi Martinez used to defraud criminal groups.
"He communicated with the drug traffickers through international numbers by sending them photos of the goods and demanding that they pay him in advance," which allowed the man to receive the money without delivering the actual order agreed upon.
The CICPC director explained that the case was transferred to the Drug Prosecutor's Office of the Public Prosecutor's Office of the Second Criminal Judicial Circuit of Sucre state. However, after the news broke and spread in official and unofficial media, Rico deleted the post from his Instagram.
#Sucesos | El Director del CICPC Douglas Rico informó a través de su cuenta de Instagram, la captura de Rudith Alexander Martínez Salazar (50) quien elaboraba y traficaba panelas falsas de drogas hacia las Islas del Caribe, fue detenido municipio Bermúdez del estado Sucre. pic.twitter.com/Mx9rpVEWk2
— Notitarde (@webnotitarde) April 26, 2023
The news sparks mockery in the networks
The unusual case unleashed numerous mockeries through social networks. Many users imagined the scenario in which drug traffickers called the Venezuelan authorities to report that someone swindled them with fake drugs.
Imagino a los narcotraficantes yendo al CICPC a poner la denuncia que alguien los estafó vendiéndoles droga falsa.
— José Antonio Pérez (@joseantonio_p) April 28, 2023
Other users took the opportunity to ask whether the criminal investigation body controlled by the regime of Nicolás Maduro also took advantage of the opportunity to capture drug traffickers or whether they let free those they consider to be the real criminals.
