The Tarija departmental prosecutor’s office together with the Bolivian police seized marijuana and cocaine in the city of Bermejo in a case involving four people.[1] Two of the four were ordered into preventive detention and the other two into house arrest.[1] The prosecution appealed the judicial decision that granted house arrest to two of the accused.[1] It said the ruling was not in accordance with the law and filed an incidental appeal while investigations continue.[1]

It requested preventive detention for those under house arrest because it feared they would flee and lose information that could help clarify the case.[1] Officers had stopped a vehicle after it tried to evade a routine police checkpoint, which alerted them and led them to intervene and find controlled substances.[1] Inside the vehicle officers found 42.2 kilograms of marijuana, described as 42 kilos plus 200 grams.[1] They also found 4 grams of cocaine alongside the marijuana, and the four suspects were charged and placed under personal precautionary measures.[1]

One of the suspects tried to escape on foot at the scene and the group resisted handing over the objects they carried.[1] Departmental prosecutor Aníbal Cabezas Flores gave the details of the cases before the prosecution service.[1] He said such offences involve more than one person, including whoever hired or delivered the substance and where it came from, all of which must be clarified in the investigation.[1]