Four people, two men and two women, were detained in barrio Nueva Esperanza in the city of Córdoba.[1] The raid was the culmination of three months of investigation by operational groups of the Fuerza Policial Antinarcotráfico, Córdoba province’s anti-narcotics police force.[1] Officers dismantled one sales point and two storage properties.[1] One of the detainees is a Peruvian national, and the group was described as narcomenudistas, small-scale retail drug dealers.[1] ENREDACCIÓN described the group as a narcomenudista band operating in the north-west of Córdoba city on the boundary with Villa Allende.[2]

The searches ordered by the Ministerio Público Fiscal, the provincial prosecution service, were carried out on calle Bernardo Houssay, Manzana 25, in barrio Nueva Esperanza, in front of a small football pitch.[1] Canal C reported that the football pitch in front of the homes served the investigated group as a reference point.[3] Narcotics detector dogs helped officers find the drugs hidden in different parts of the homes.[1] Officers seized 12 doses of marijuana, alongside 1,139 doses of cocaine that are excluded from the cannabis figures here.[1] They also seized 948,700 pesos and 2,500 dollars, a shotgun, 11 cartridges of calibre 22, two digital scales and other evidence.[1] One of the homes held a kiosco de pantalla, a shopfront used as a front for selling drugs.[1]

The Fiscalía de Lucha contra el Narcotráfico del primer Turno, the first-turn anti-narcotics prosecutor, ordered the seized items sent on and the four detainees transferred to judicial headquarters for an offence under National Narcotics Law No. 23.737.[1] ElDoce.tv reported that the four detainees were placed at the disposal of that prosecutor’s office and accused of breaking law 23.737.[4]