Drugs seized in a cargo of grain are incinerated in Moju More than a ton of cocaine was incinerated by the Civil Police of Pará in the Metropolitan Region of Belém. The drugs were found hidden in a cargo of corn. Tablets totaling 1.3 tons of drugs were destroyed. The Civil Police reported this Saturday (18) that the incineration was in a suitable and monitored location on Thursday (16), after the drug had been examined. The cocaine was seized last weekend, in the northeast region of Pará, hidden among corn grains in a truck. The driver abandoned the vehicle and fled into a wooded area. As of late Saturday morning (18), he had not been located. "A police investigation was launched to determine the authorship of the crime, where information and evidence are being collected to support representations for necessary precautionary measures," the Civil Police said in a statement. ? Follow the g1 Pará channel on WhatsApp The incineration was carried out by civil police officers from the State Narcotics Division (Denarc), accompanied by representatives from the State Public Ministry, Health Surveillance and police officers from the Functional Crimes Division (Decrif), linked to the Civil Police Internal Affairs. More than 1.3 tons of cocaine caught in a load of corn in Pará is incinerated Civil Police/Disclosure How the seizure went Agents were already monitoring the possibility of a large shipment of drugs that would cross the region hidden in loads of grain. The seizure occurred after investigations and was coordinated by the State Narcotics Division (Denarc) in the town of Vila Palmares, a district that is approximately 60 kilometers from the center of Moju. Upon noticing the vehicle, the driver braked the vehicle suddenly in the middle of the road, left the cabin and ran towards the dense vegetation that borders the road, according to the police. The police began a thorough search of the closed-body semi-trailer. In the compartment, agents found hundreds of bags of corn. However, the strong odor of chemicals caught the team's attention. When removing part of the bags of corn from the front of the truck's trunk, the police found rectangular tablets with a white petrified substance, with characteristics of cocaine. Civil Police seize more than 1 ton of cocaine in the rural area of ??Moju (PA) VIDEOS: see all the news from Pará