Three held in San Juan with 15.8 kg of marijuana in a collected parcel
Gendarmería Nacional officers arrested three people collecting a parcel bound for Caucete, San Juan province, that held 15 kilos 800 grams of marijuana, in an inquiry into a Misiones-based trafficking organisation. The Federal Prosecutor's Office in San Juan ordered all three held under the drug law and the marijuana, 62,000 pesos, four phones and a car seized.
Gendarmería Nacional officers in San Juan arrested three people as they
collected a parcel that held 15 kilos800 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 seized15 kilos800 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]
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Neither the release nor the local outlets give a separate date for the operation; 23 October 2025 is the date of the first local report and the government release followed the next day.
Tiempo de San Juan reports 17 kg in four pressed bundles, while the Gendarmería release and two other outlets report 15 kilos 800 grams; the report uses the agency's 15.8 kg.
The release describes the parcel's destination as Caucete and local reporting places the collection at the Caucete post office, but the agency does not name the collection point.
Neither account names the three detainees or gives their ages; only the two companions are described, as a man from Rivadavia and a woman from Santa Lucía.
No charges, custody rulings or court outcome were reported; the investigation was described as continuing.
No street value was published for the 15.8 kg of marijuana; the 62,000 pesos in cash is money seized in the case, not a cannabis valuation.
The three photographs on the release carry no captions, so whether they show this seizure is assumed from their publication with the release.
A local journalist's social-media claim that one detainee was armed and threatened a woman is unconfirmed and left out.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Tiempo de San Juan: A gendarmería source quoted by Tiempo de San Juan said a woman collected the package outside the Correo Argentino post office facing the departmental plaza in Caucete and was intercepted, while a man from Rivadavia and a woman from Santa Lucía fled in a car.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Tiempo de San Juan: The fleeing car hit a parked vehicle and the chase ended after about 60 metres when officers overpowered the driver.
Chaco police arrested two men aged 51 and 56 in the Ginés Benítez barrio of Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña after a night patrol on 10 November 2026. Officers seized 44 grams of marijuana and 336,400 pesos in cash, and the anti-drug prosecutor's office ordered both men held under Argentina's drugs law 23.737.
Arrested 2Cannabis 44 gVehicles confiscated 1Cash confiscated ARS 336,400
Police in La Banda apprehended three people aged 23 to 24 after a motorcycle stop in barrio San Martín yielded 88.42 grams of marijuana, a precision scale, phones and cash. The red Honda Wave they rode had an active robbery-related seizure order, and everything seized was placed at the disposal of the court.
Arrested 3Cannabis 88.42 gVehicles confiscated 1Cash confiscated ARS 6,200
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Officers of Córdoba's anti-drug force, the FPA, arrested an adult man during a preventive street patrol on Boulevard Sáenz Peña in Barrio Sarmiento, San Francisco. They seized several doses of marijuana, cash and other items of interest, and the prosecutor's office ordered the detainee and seized items moved to local judicial headquarters.