Officers of the Dirección General de Drogas Peligrosas y Crimen Organizado of the Corrientes provincial police searched a house on Rómulo Artieda street at number 2100, in the barrio Ponce of the provincial capital, on Friday 9 October 2026.[1] The raid broke up a drugs sales and distribution point, and police detained a man known in the criminal milieu under the alias Sopapa.[1] Members of the P.A.R. division and the Canes (dog) division took part and searched the different rooms of the property.[1]

The search found 67 grams of marijuana, held in a glass jar and a polyethylene wrapper, along with cocaine.[1] Officers said they also seized a working precision scale, five mobile phones and 1,400,000 pesos in cash believed to come from the illegal trade.[1] Court authorities estimated the total street value of what was seized at 3,508,000 pesos.[1] Corrientes al Día reported that the search was carried out under a judicial order on a house on Rómulo Artieda street on Friday 9 October.[2] Police said the officers found the cocaine divided into 65 doses and one larger wrapper, and also seized marijuana, five mobile phones and a precision scale.[2]

The man identified in the house was left at the disposal of the judicial authorities, while the police report did not say whether he was formally detained or released.[2] The case was opened before the Juzgado de Garantías of the First Judicial Circuit and the Unidad Fiscal de Investigación Criminal N° 5 (UFIC 5), under Argentina’s drug law 23.737.[1] The seized material was taken to the Drogas Peligrosas y Crimen Organizado unit for further processing.[2]

The 10 October 2026 El Litoral news index listed an article headlined Narcomenudeo: decomisaron cocaína, marihuana y casi $1 millón en Corrientes, linking to the full report on the raid.[3]