Late breaking: After nearly 48 hours on the run, police officer caught with 100 kilos of cocaine turns himself in
Agents of the Drug Control Police (PCD) discovered 100 kilos of cocaine hidden under bed of a pickup driven by a fellow officer of the Fuerza Publica. (MSP photo)
December 14th, 2015 (ICR News) A police officer on the run since Saturday when fellow police discovered 100 kilos of cocaine hidden beneath the bed of a pickup he was driving while off duty turned himself in Monday afternoon, according to Costa Rica’s Public Security Ministry (MSP).
The 49-year-old police officer, identified by the last name Alvarez, turned himself in at the Ciudad Neily precinct of the Judicial Investigative Police (OIJ) shortly after 1 pm, according to the MSP.
Alvarez had been on the run since Saturday, when fellow police officers stopped the man at a checkpoint in Uvita de Osa.
As officers at the checkpoint returned to their vehicle to run a check on the registration of the pickup being driven by Alvarez, the man and his brother, who was a passenger in the vehicle, fled on foot into the nearby mountains.
After a pursuit, officers were able to capture Alvarez’s brother, but Alvarez managed to escape.
Upon an inspection of the vehicle, officers of the Drug Control Police (PCD) discovered 100 kilos of cocaine hidden under the bed of the pickup.
Alvarez has been a police officer with the Fuerza Publica in Corredores for 16 years and has no prior criminal history, according to the Ministry of Public Security (MSP). His brother has a previous arrest for check fraud.
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