Agents of SENAD’s Urban Operations Department with prosecutor Carlos Alcaraz surprised the suspect inside the apartment with friends.[1] The raid took place at 21:00 on the previous Friday at the apartment on Comandante Franco casi Capitán Pedro Carpinelli in Asunción.[1] The detained man was 39-year-old Cuban national Alejandro Henriquez Aquino, who lived in Paraguay as a political refugee.[1] He worked as a DJ and co-owned Sequence Club, an electronic-music disco in central Asunción.[1] Officers detained Henriquez inside the house.[2]

Officers seized 311.4 grams of marijuana in several doses, alongside 100.5 grams of cocaine, 63 ecstasy pills and 289 LSD tablets.[1] They also seized three mobile phones, a scale and G. 982,000 in cash thought to come from drug sales.[1] Agents later went to the Sequence disco and found only documents showing Henriquez was one of its owners.[1]

The raid followed a two-month investigation using wiretaps and undercover agents to buy substances sold at a disco.[2] The prosecutor treated the evidence and quantity as pointing to micro-trafficking rather than mere consumption.[2] Henriquez said the drugs found were only for personal use.[2] He was charged with drug trafficking and possession.[1]