Police of the OS7 section of Carabineros, in a search authorised by a judge and entered into a home in a residential sector of Coyhaique, the capital of the Aysén region, where they detained three people and seized the drug, after a neighbourhood microtrafficking investigation led by the Criminal Analysis System (SAC) of the Aysén regional prosecutor’s office.[1] The investigation led to the seizure of about 180 grams of marijuana, the prosecutor’s statement said, after police had entered the dwelling with judicial authorisation.[2]

According to the prosecutor, the suspects had tried to destroy part of the evidence before being detained.[1] The three were then put at the disposal of the Juzgado de Garantía of Coyhaique, where the prosecutor formalised the investigation and requested preventive detention for all the people involved.[1] The court granted the request in part: it placed two of the accused in preventive detention, while the third, who had an impeccable prior conduct record, was given total house arrest.[1]

As prosecutor Fernando Pino described it, the SAC works to counter neighbourhood microtrafficking alongside Carabineros’ OS7 unit through various investigative steps.[2]