PM seizes smuggled blankets and beer from Bolivia

By ETCO

Source: Agora MS, 20/06/2009

Around 08:15 am this Friday (19), military police approached the greenhouse HQH 1160 pickup truck on the access road to the Taquaral Settlement, driven by Waderson de Araújo Rocha, 19, carrying ten bundles of blankets, containing 100 units each.

After being arrested, the driver of the vehicle revealed to the police the location of a property where the goods would be stored. In the warehouse were found 46 bales of blankets and 49 cases of beer. Waderson said that the goods did not belong to him and that he was hired only to do the transportation.

Witnesses informed police officers that the property was rented to a man he used as a smuggling deposit. According to witnesses, the goods always arrived at night to be unloaded.

The man who rented the property was not found by the police. All merchandise seized about 5.600 blankets and the beer was sent to the Federal Revenue building.