Couple held in Coyhaique after 1 kg of cannabis found in jars in a suitcase
Carabineros' OS7 anti-drug unit searched a home in Coyhaique with the occupants' consent and found more than 30 glass jars holding about a kilogram of cannabis, hidden in a suitcase. A 38-year-old man and a 39-year-old woman, both without criminal records, were detained; the man was remanded in pre-trial detention.
Officers of the OS7 section of Carabineros in Aysén, working with the local prosecutor’s office,
carried out a consensual entry and search of a home in Coyhaique, the regional capital.[1][2]In a
storeroom, hidden inside a suitcase, they found more than 30 glass jars containing cannabis.[1][2]
The head of OS7 Aysén, Captain Juan González Vásquez, said the jars held a gross weight of about one
kilogram.[1][2]Carabineros said the amount was equivalent to about 2,000 doses taken out of
circulation.[1][2]
The two occupants, a 38-year-old man and a 39-year-old woman, were detained on a charge of illicit
drug trafficking and taken before the Juzgado de Garantía of Coyhaique for their formalisation
hearing.[1][2]Neither had a criminal record.[1][2]The court remanded one of them in pre-trial
detention for the duration of the investigation; Radio Santa María identified him as the man and
reported that the court accepted the prosecutor’s argument that his freedom was a danger to society.[1][2]The measure imposed on the woman was not reported.[1][2]
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