Argentina’s federal police detained five people in eight searches across the Buenos Aires metropolitan area on 2 October 2025, after following a Peruvian citizen who an investigation said supplied illicit substances to narco bands.[1] The investigation by the Procuraduría de Narcocriminalidad (PROCUNAR) had identified a Peruvian citizen said to be supplying illicit substances to narco bands.[2] Officers of the Departamento Federal de Investigaciones (DFI) of the Policía Federal Argentina (PFA) watched his car stop near calle Comandante Peredo at 500 in Ituzaingó to meet the presumed buyer, and both men were detained in the street.[2] The Juzgado Federal de Villa Mercedes in San Luis, under judge Juan Carlos Nacul, validated the stop and ordered the vehicle searched; officers found 60 compact bricks totalling more than 65 kilograms of high-purity cocaine hydrochloride.[2]

With the buyer, an Argentine aged 44, confirmed as a comprador previo, the court ordered eight searches of properties linked to the seller’s family and to the rest of the structure under investigation.[2] At a house on calle Don Bosco in Barrio Trujuy, Moreno, officers found another 200 bricks weighing 216 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride.[2] The remaining searches covered five homes in the city of Buenos Aires, two more on Comandante Peredo in Ituzaingó and one on Brandsen in Bosques, Florencio Varela.[2] In those searches three more men were detained, and officers seized several doses of marijuana, six Cannabis Sativa plants, 2,280,000 pesos, 1,300 US dollars, two pistols, a revolver, ammunition, four cars and 18 mobile phones.[2] TN reported the same seizures and the same three further detentions in the house searches.[3] The prosecutor’s office put the cocaine seized in the eight searches at 281,872 kilograms, a total that is not cannabis and is not counted here.[1]

All five detainees were adults and were left with the seized items at the disposal of the intervening judge, accused of infringing Argentina’s national drug law.[2] TN reported that all the detainees were left at the judge’s disposal facing charges under the national drug law.[3] The Public Prosecutor’s Office described the five detainees as a Peruvian, a Uruguayan and three Argentines.[1] The organisation ran from August 2023 to October 2025, selling cocaine hydrochloride to resellers in the AMBA and in San Luis, Buenos Aires and Santa Fe through mulas who carried the drug overland.[1] Judge Nacul took statements from the five on 3 October 2025, and all refused to testify.[1]