Officers of the Charata Drug Operations Division (División Operaciones Drogas de Charata) ran investigative work to dismantle retail drug-selling and consumption points in the town.[1] After patrols and surveillance posts detected the activity in two homes, the officers asked the prosecutor on duty for search warrants.[1] The searches were carried out on the night of 6 November, with the court orders in hand and a witness present, starting at a house on Urquiza street in Charata.[1]

Inside one part of that house officers found the bunker where drugs were being prepared for sale.[1] There they seized six packages of cocaine weighing 36 grams in total, packages of marijuana, polyethylene cuttings used for wrapping, a precision scale and 24,000 pesos in cash.[1] Three men aged 36, 40 and 41 were notified of their arrest (aprehensión) at that house and placed at the disposal of the Sáenz Peña anti-drug prosecutor’s office.[1] The assistant prosecutor considered that everything found at the first house was linked to drug dealing.[1]

The second home searched, nearby on Blas Parera street, held 17 plastic packages called bochitas with 15 grams of cocaine in total and 18,000 pesos in cash, all seized.[1] A 65-year-old woman was notified of the judicial proceedings at the second home; the article names no arrest there.[1]