SENAD seizes 2,850 kg of hashish at Capitán Bado camp
SENAD agents found 3,600 packages weighing 2,850 kg of hashish at a clandestine camp in Capitán Bado on 7 August 2020, acting on intelligence about the site. The drug, bound for Brazil, was burned on site; no one was captured.
Acting on intelligence about a clandestine camp in Capitán Bado, a city in Amambay on the Brazilian border, SENAD special agents seized nearly three tons of hashish there on 7 August 2020.[1]The drug was bound for Brazil and was reported to belong to a powerful criminal organisation shipping it across the border.[1]
On site the agents found 3,600 packages of hashish weighing 2,850 kilos in total, a long weapon and the supplies needed for packaging.[1]The hashish was incinerated on the spot, and no one was captured during the operation.[1]
SENAD linked the find to rising demand for new marijuana varieties on the Brazilian market after dismantling a hashish production laboratory elsewhere in Amambay in late July.[1]Its communications director said hashish was in high demand and more profitable, though uncommon because of the careful process it requires, while the SENAD minister noted hashish usually reached Paraguay from abroad and was rarely seized in crop camps.[1]
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SENAD agents stand over stacks of packaged hashish at the forest campsite in Capitán BadoPhoto details
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