Two held as Prefectura seizes marijuana in three Concepción del Uruguay raids
Naval Prefecture officers detained a 43-year-old man and a 47-year-old woman in three house searches in Barrio Malvinas Argentinas, Concepción del Uruguay, on 23 May 2024. Officers seized marijuana, portioned cocaine, cash, phones, scales and two firearms; no cannabis weight was published.
🇦🇷 Barrio Malvinas Argentinas, Concepción del Uruguay, Entre Ríos · Argentina
Personnel of the Argentine Naval Prefecture detained a man and a woman and
seized cocaine and marijuana in three searches in Concepción del Uruguay, Entre
Ríos.[1]A 43-year-old man and a 47-year-old woman were held at a police
facility in connection with the investigation.[2]The searches took place in
three houses in Barrio Malvinas Argentinas on the afternoon of Thursday 23 May
2024.[2]
The ministry said the two were linked to the sale of narcotics and that
marijuana, cocaine, cash, eight mobile phones, a precision scale and material of
interest were seized.[1]Local reporting added that officers seized cocaine
portioned for sale, marijuana, cash in national and foreign currency, mobile
phones and digital scales.[2]They also seized a .38 revolver, a 9 mm pistol
and ammunition.[2]
The searches were carried out under Entre Ríos provincial law 10.566 on
narcomenudeo, local retail drug dealing, read with the national drug law 23.737.[2]The searches were ordered by the city’s Juzgado de Garantías, the
provincial guarantee court, under Judge Alejandrina Herrero, with personnel of
the Entre Ríos provincial police taking part.[1]The case was being run by the
Toxicology Division of the Uruguay departmental police headquarters together
with the naval prefecture.[2]Provincial media said the afternoon deployment
involved the Toxicology Division with support from the Special Guard and the
naval prefecture, and that three houses in the neighbourhood were involved.[3]
Provincial outlet ElEntreRíos reported the operation with the prefecture
credited as its source.[4]
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Open questions the AI reported
No weight, plant count or street value for the marijuana was published in the opened accounts, only that marijuana was seized, so no cannabis quantity or value is recorded.
Neither the specific charges nor any court outcome were reported; the two detainees were left at the disposal of the local guarantee court.
The cocaine and cash amounts are mentioned only to explain the mixed case and are excluded from cannabis figures.
The security ministry's statement names no neighbourhood; Barrio Malvinas Argentinas comes from the local outlets.
The ministry photographs carry no captions describing what each frame shows, and no opened source establishes which picture, if any, shows the marijuana.
No source states whether the two detained people owned or occupied the three searched homes.
The local coverage largely reproduces the prefecture's and police press account rather than independently verifying it.
El Miércoles Digital and Radio La Ke Buena each publish unnamed photographs of the operation that could not be compared with the ministry's, so some may be the same handout picture; they are not linked here.
The ministry page's metadata shows a modification on 25 May 2024; 24 May 2024 is used as the publication date from the page's own byline.
Entre Ríos police searched a home in Nogoyá on 10 November 2026 and detained one person in a narcomenudeo investigation. Officers seized small quantities of cocaine and marijuana, more than 100,000 pesos, two phones, a digital scale and nylon cuttings.
Police raided two homes in Cipolletti's Barrio 1200 Viviendas on 9 November 2026 after a three-month inquiry into retail drug sales, seizing portioned marijuana and cocaine, scales, cash and a pistol. Six adults were notified that a federal narcotics case had been opened against them under Argentina's drug law, though no arrests were reported.
Catamarca police searched a house on Calle 2 de Febrero in Santa María city and seized 27 marijuana seedlings, a gram scale and two phones, with the case under the federal court in Catamarca. Officers also reported suspected cocaine and detained a 27-year-old man at the end of the search.
Corrientes police detained a 21-year-old with an outstanding capture request in a raid on a house on Calle Castillo in Curuzú Cuatiá on 8 November 2026. Officers seized cocaine, marijuana, two firearms, a phone and cash, publishing no weights.
