Gendarmería Nacional officers in San Juan arrested three people as they collected a parcel that held 15 kilos 800 grams of marijuana.[1] The arrests formed part of an investigation into a criminal organisation that transported and sold drugs from Misiones to other Argentine provinces.[1] Officers of the force’s San Juan unit for complex crimes and judicial proceedings waited in place as the three arrived to take delivery.[1] The parcel’s stated destination was Caucete department, east of the provincial capital.[1] The suspects came to a shipping company in the San Juan provincial capital to collect the package, whose final destination was Caucete department.[2]

Tiempo de San Juan reported that the parcel came from Liniers, Buenos Aires, declared as costume jewellery and holding four pressed bundles of marijuana.[3]

In front of witnesses officers seized 15 kilos 800 grams of cannabis sativa, 62,000 pesos in cash, four mobile phones used for the criminal operations and a car.[1] The Federal Prosecutor’s Office in San Juan directed that all the items be seized and that the three people be held on suspicion of breaching Argentina’s drug law, Ley 23.737.[1] The operation was coordinated by the force’s units in Eldorado, Misiones, where the organisation’s shipments began, and in San Juan.[1] Radio 3 Cadena Patagonia repeated the agency’s account of three detainees, 15.8 kilos of cannabis sativa, 62,000 pesos, four phones and a car.[4]