Neuquén prosecutors charged four people with selling cocaine and marijuana from four drug-selling houses in Centenario.[1] Case prosecutor Silvia Moreira presented the charges at a hearing on 18 September 2026 in the Ciudad Judicial in Neuquén city.[1] Anti-narcotics officers of the provincial police searched four homes on the streets México, Costa Rica, Puerto Argentino and Ricardo Güiraldes on 12 September 2026.[1] Four people were charged over the sales, which prosecutors said ran from September 2024 to 12 September 2026.[2]
The accused are three men, identified by their initials as M.N.V.A., J.P.Z.A. and K.B., and a woman, M.A.A.[1] Prosecutors described M.N.V.A. as the buyer and seller of the drugs who knew the suppliers and kept drugs and firearms in reserve.[2] M.A.A. was accused of coordinating payments and transfers and storing drugs and cash, J.P.Z.A. of administering transfers and custody, and K.B. of selling permanently at the homes.[1] Three were charged as co-authors of aggravated drug commerce involving an organised group of three or more people, and K.B. as a secondary participant.[1]
The raids found drugs, precision scales, electronic devices, nylon strips used to divide doses, and 638,230 pesos in cash.[1] The source does not give the weight of the marijuana seized.[2] Prosecutors also accused M.N.V.A. of firing shots at a house on calle Puerto Argentino in September 2025 and threatening its owner, and of trying to run down a police officer in barrio Fonavi on 11 April 2026.[2] During that escape he dropped a package with 137 grams of cocaine, and the car held another 33 grams of cocaine and marijuana.[1]
Guarantee judge Natalia Peloso accepted the charges, rejected a defence challenge to provincial jurisdiction and set a four-month investigation period.[1] Peloso ordered four months of pre-trial detention for M.N.V.A., granted house arrest for four months to M.A.A. and J.P.Z.A., and released K.B., who must report three times a week at the Comisaría 52.[1] The judge allowed the seizure of bank and Mercado Pago accounts, except M.A.A.’s pension account, and the preventive closure of the four homes used as selling points.[1]
