Bahía Blanca’s Criminal Court No. 3 sentenced María José Dupak to 4 years and 2 months in prison for selling cocaine and marijuana in split doses, with deliveries arranged in advance at various points in the city.[1] The guilty verdict was handed down in a plea bargain proceeding that proved the drug sales took place between 7 November 2024 and 7 February 2025.[1]
The case began when Bahía Blanca’s monitoring centre (CeÚM) alerted the patrol command about suspicious movements in the first block of Montevideo street.[1] Cameras had recorded a woman in a jacket and jeans handing an object to a man in a pink T-shirt, who afterwards showed her his phone.[1] Officers seized from the buyer a nylon wrapper with cocaine and a mobile phone, while Dupak (36) had marijuana and also a mobile phone that was confiscated.[1] One of the operations that advanced the case occurred on 7 February 2025, when officers found marijuana inside a metal box the accused was carrying in her handbag, in the first block of Montevideo street.[2]
The investigation was led by the drugs prosecutor Mauricio Del Cero, heading Functional Unit No. 19.[1] The prosecution proved earlier sales and established that on 7 February 2025 the woman carried marijuana for sale.[1] In 2019 Dupak had been detained for the same offence.[1]
