Gendarmerie seizes 360.7 kg of marijuana in two Route 12 operations
Gendarmería Nacional officers seized 360 kilos 741 grams of cannabis in two Route 12 operations on 14 September 2022: 98.584 kg in an abandoned car at Ensenada Grande, Corrientes, and 262.157 kg in a car whose driver fled at the Santa Ana toll booth in Misiones. No arrests were reported; federal prosecutors in Corrientes and Posadas ordered the drug and the vehicles seized.
🇦🇷 Ensenada Grande, Ruta Nacional 12 km 1.069, Corrientes, and Peaje Santa Ana, Ruta Nacional 12 km 1.375, Misiones · Argentina
Gendarmería Nacional Argentina reported seizing 360 kilos741 grams of cannabis
in two separate operations on Route 12 in Corrientes and Misiones.[1]
In the first, Sección San Cosme of Escuadrón 48 Corrientes was alerted before
dawn to an abandoned Chevrolet Aveo at kilometre 1.069 of National Route 12 in
Ensenada Grande, Corrientes.[1]Officers found bundles inside the car and
burlap sacks beside it holding packages wrapped in transparent nylon like those
used to move drugs.[1]Narcotest field tests came back positive for cannabis
sativa and 98 kilos584 grams were seized in 116 packages.[1]The Federal
Prosecutor’s Office of Corrientes ordered the drug and the car confiscated, and
no one was reported arrested in that find.[1]
In the second operation, the Jardín América group of Escuadrón 11 San Ignacio
was running roadside prevention checks at kilometre 1.375 of Route 12 at the
Santa Ana toll booth, in Misiones, when a second Chevrolet Aveo arrived.[1]The driver seemed to have trouble handling the car because of mechanical faults
and appeared in a hurry to pay the toll, so officers directed him to pull over
and he drove off.[1]Gendarmes followed the car for 3 kilometres until it
pulled onto the shoulder, where the driver got out through the passenger door
and fled into the adjoining woodland.[1]On the back seat and in the boot
officers found 12 compact bundles, of different sizes, holding 293 packages that
gave off the characteristic smell of marijuana.[1]Field tests were positive
for cannabis sativa, with a total weight of 262 kilos157 grams.[1]The
Federal Court and the Federal Prosecutor’s Office of Posadas ordered the drug
and the vehicle confiscated, and the driver who fled was not caught.[1]
The release placed both procedures under Law 23.737, Argentina’s narcotics law.[1]Corrientes al Día republished the same account of the two seizures and the
same weights the following day.[2]
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Source: Argentina.gob.ar (Gendarmería Nacional Argentina)Second uncaptioned Gendarmería photo published with the release on the 98.584 kg and 262.157 kg seizures. Photo: Gendarmería Nacional ArgentinaPhoto details
The release says the Corrientes find happened 'in the early hours of yesterday' and was published on 15 September 2022, so 14 September 2022 is used as the incident date; the time of the Misiones stop is not given separately.
The release does not state which department or municipality Ensenada Grande belongs to, or exactly where the Misiones driver fled; coordinates are a rough centre for the two provinces on Route 12 at region precision.
No one was reported arrested: the cars were empty or the driver fled, and no suspect was named or charged.
No court outcome beyond the prosecutors' orders to confiscate the drug and the vehicles was published.
No street value and no breakdown between buds and pressed marijuana were published.
The only second account found, Corrientes al Día, reprints the Gendarmería release almost verbatim, so it provides no independent confirmation.
The five photos on the government page are uncaptioned and it is not established which of the two seizures each shows.
The individual weights are clear (98.584 kg and 262.157 kg), but the headline's round 'more than 360 kilos' total is not restated in the text.
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