Paraguay’s Senad anti-drug secretariat seized a total of 55,840 kilograms of marijuana in two unconnected seizures at checkpoints in Ciudad del Este during the last week of June 2005, with dogs from its U.S.-funded canine unit finding the drug.[1] In the same week’s operations the dogs also uncovered 726 grams of cocaine at a checkpoint in Mariscal Estigarribia, and Senad agents arrested four people.[1] A 1 July 2005 U.S. embassy roundup reported the busts under the heading “Drug Busts Offer Hope” in its account of the week’s events.[1]
Senad seizes 55.8 tonnes of marijuana at Ciudad del Este checkpoints
Paraguay's Senad seized 55,840 kilograms of marijuana in two checkpoint seizures in Ciudad del Este in the last week of June 2005. Dogs from the U.S.-funded canine unit found the drug, and Senad agents arrested four people across the week's operations.
🇵🇾 Checkpoints in Ciudad del Este · Paraguay
- Cannabis
- 55.84 t
- Agency
- SENAD
- Cannabis
- Herbal cannabis
- Case stage
- Under investigation
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
- Cannabis
- 55.84 t
- Agency type
- Anti-narcotics agency
- Cannabis
- Herbal cannabis (55.84 t)
- Activity
- Trafficking
- Setting
- Land border
- Case stage
- Under investigation
- Date
- Approximate
Sources
- U.S. Embassy Asunción (WikiLeaks cable 05ASUNCION844)wikileaks.jcvignoli.comPARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE, JUNE 25-JULY 1
Open questions the AI reported
- The cable dates the seizures only to the week of 25 June to 1 July 2005, so 30 June stands in as an approximate date.
- It is unclear how the four arrested people divide across the cocaine and marijuana seizures.
- No charges or court outcomes for the arrested people were reported in the opened source.
- The whole account rests on a single U.S. Embassy roundup of the week's events; no second account of these seizures was reported.
