Man flees after police seize 5.3 kg of marijuana hidden in Castelli weeds
Police in Juan José Castelli, Chaco, seized 5.348 kilograms of marijuana hidden in weeds beside a rural road after a tip. A man who arrived on a Honda Tornado to collect a package dropped it and escaped, and the case was opened under National Law 23.737.
🇦🇷 Antonio Nieves street and a rural road, Juan José Castelli, Chaco · Argentina
Police in Juan José Castelli, in Argentina’s Chaco province, seized more than
five kilograms of marijuana hidden in weeds beside a rural road after a tip
about drugs concealed in the vegetation.[1]Officers went to Antonio Nieves
street, near its junction with the track, and about 20 metres from the crossing
found flattened grass and several black packages wrapped in tape.[1]
The duty assistant prosecutor ordered a discreet watch to see whether anyone
came to collect the packages.[1]Around midday a stocky man arrived on a Honda
Tornado 250 cc motorcycle, got off and picked up one of the packages hidden in
the grass.[1]When officers ordered him to stop he dropped the package and
rode away, and a chase did not catch him.[1]
Assistant prosecutor Diego Enrique then ordered the abandoned package seized and
the area searched in front of two witnesses.[1]Weighing and a field test
confirmed the load was marijuana, 5.348 kilograms in five black polyethylene
packages, and the case was opened as a suspected breach of National Law 23.737,
Argentina’s narcotics statute.[1]Officers continued trying to identify the
man who fled.[1]
SP Noticias reported that Chaco police, including Castelli drugs officers, began
the operation on Wednesday morning, and that the decentralised fiscal office in
Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña, under Carlos Amad, ordered the watch.[2]That
account said the rider arrived about 12:30, dropped the package and escaped, and
that a further search found four more identical packages, making five in all.[2]
Case data
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Portico Noticias dated the seizure to Thursday afternoon, while SP Noticias said the operation began on Wednesday morning. 11 November 2026, a Wednesday and the shared publication date, is used as the incident date.
Portico said a further search found five more packages and also said five packages were seized in all. SP Noticias said the dropped package plus four more made five packages of 5.348 kg. The report uses the shared total of five packages and 5.348 kg.
Portico named assistant prosecutor Diego Enrique, while SP Noticias named Carlos Amad of the fiscal office in Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña.
The man who fled was not identified, and neither account says he was later arrested or charged.
No street value was published, and the pin is the town centre of Juan José Castelli because the exact point on Antonio Nieves street is not given.
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