About 500 kg of marijuana seized in Clorinda's Porteño Norte neighbourhood
Provincial police in Clorinda searched a house on Santiago Derqui street in the Porteño Norte neighbourhood and seized about 500 kilograms of marijuana, following a bag of 22 packets that fell from a cargo cart. The substance tested positive for marijuana and the investigation continues, with no arrests reported.
🇦🇷 Barrio Porteño Norte, Clorinda, Formosa · Argentina
Officers of Unidad Regional Tres, the Formosa provincial police command based in
Clorinda, searched a house on Santiago Derqui street in the Porteño Norte
neighbourhood and seized about 500 kilograms of marijuana.[1][2][3]
The case began in the early hours of Friday when neighbours reported a motorised
cargo cart, a motocarga, speeding through internal streets of the neighbourhood
and a black bag fell from it.[1][3]The bag was taken to a police station and
found to hold 22 packets of marijuana weighing more than 23 kilograms.[1][3]On
the Saturday, shortly after 4 am, neighbours reported suspected gunfire from the
house under investigation, and the courts ordered a search.[1][3]The origin of the detonations heard during the operation was still under investigation.[3]
The search took place on the Saturday morning in the presence of the duty judge,
Mariela Portales, and officers found a large number of packages containing plant
material.[4][3]The load was moved to the Unidad Regional Tres headquarters,
where field tests were positive for marijuana and weighing put the total at
about 500 kilograms.[4][3]Police estimated the load was more than 1,400,000
doses destined for consumers.[4]Diario Exprés put the value of the drug at
more than 1,850,000 pesos, without saying whose estimate it is.[1][2]The federal
courts were notified of the seizure and officers of the Scientific Police and
the General Directorate of Dangerous Drugs took part.[4]
Police said the investigation was continuing to establish where the drug came
from, identify those responsible and find possible links to other storage and
distribution points.[1]The investigation involved personnel of Unidad Regional Tres, the Radioelectric Command Brigade and other units, with the intervention of the Federal Police and knowledge of the judiciary.[3]None of the three accounts reported an arrest in the
case.[5]
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The 500 kilograms is described as approximately 500 kilograms after weighing, not an exact measured figure.
No arrest was reported; the police release says the investigation continues to establish who is responsible.
The accounts do not give a separate date for the Friday bag find; the search took place on Saturday 7 November 2026, the day of publication.
The value of more than 1,850,000 pesos appears only in the Diario Exprés lead, which says the drug was 'valuados' without naming whose estimate it is, so it is not recorded as a figure.
Diario Exprés writes 'un billón ochocientos cincuenta mil pesos', which read literally is 1.85 trillion pesos; the intended amount could not be confirmed, so no value figure is recorded.
The substance was identified by an orientation test positive for marijuana, not a laboratory analysis.
The neighbourhood's location is only partly consistent: Diario Exprés and the provincial page do not name the city, while Diario Formosa places Porteño Norte in Clorinda.
All three accessible accounts reproduce the same provincial police release, so they are not independent reporting.
The Diario Exprés photo is captioned only with the story headline and gives no credit, so it is not confirmed to show this seizure.
The provincial page carries four further uncaptioned photos that were not listed individually; what they depict is not stated.
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