Two 25-year-old men were arrested in the city of Concepción when they arrived to collect parcels containing drugs, after police tracked the shipment from a parcel company’s industrial park to its Concepción branch.[1] The two suspects were detained as they came to pick up the packages after police watched the delivery route, and they were left incommunicado.[2] Both men were transferred to the Unidad Regional Norte on the order of the intervening prosecution unit, pending appearance before the courts.[1]

Officers seized 10 kilos of marijuana that were being carried in a parcel-delivery truck, alongside a separate one-kilo cocaine seizure that is not counted in the cannabis figures.[1] Police estimated that the 10 kilos of marijuana could yield about 100,000 individual packets, according to the police estimates reported.[2] Officers also seized the bundles used to carry the drugs and a motorcycle the two men were using.[1]

The case began the previous Sunday when officers at the Cabo Vallejo border post stopped the parcel transport at a checkpoint on National Route 9 at kilometre 1,371, on the Tucumán–Salta boundary.[1] Federal Court No. 2 intervened and ordered investigative steps to identify the shipment’s intended recipients, with the northern dangerous-drugs directorate placed in charge of tracing them.[1] The case is being investigated as a suspected violation of National Narcotics Law No. 23.737.[1]