At the Posadas Federal Court, a couple pleaded guilty through an abbreviated trial and received prison sentences of four years and four years and one month for transporting 216.196 kilograms of marijuana and disobeying a stop signal during a Gendarmería Nacional operation in Dos de Mayo.[1] Nicolas Ivan Pieka, a 33-year-old mechanic, agreed to a four years and one month prison sentence, while Karen Antonela De Cuadra, also 33, agreed to four years.[1] The couple had been charged with drug trafficking in real concurrence with disobedience to authority, Pieka for two acts and De Cuadra for one.[1]
The underlying interception dates to 25 November 2025 at 7:25 pm, when gendarmes of the Aristobulo del Valle section were running a vehicle check on provincial route 11 in the Las Campanas district of Dos de Mayo.[1] A black Volkswagen Bora driven by Pieka with De Cuadra as passenger ignored the stop signal and kept going.[1] After a pursuit, officers found the vehicle hidden among the vegetation on an access road to a grotto, where the occupants were unloading bags wrapped in black sacks, and the pair ran off but were caught about ten metres away.[1] With the sniffer dog Batron, gendarmes located six bundles holding 299 marijuana packages weighing a total of 216.196 kilograms.[1]
The two lived in Obera at the time of the offence; the woman is from that city and the man from the capital.[1] The court set De Cuadra to serve her four-year term on home detention because she has three minor children in her care and is their main provider, with an electronic monitoring device and monthly checks by the Posadas execution authority.[1] Pieka, currently held at Gendarmería National squad 9 in Obera, must serve four years and one month in a federal prison, with the judge asking for his transfer to a facility with capacity, prioritising the Unit 17 in Candelaria for family and personal reasons.[1] The ruling also ordered the forfeiture of the Volkswagen Bora, owned by Pieka and used to carry the drugs.[1]
Gendarmeria confirmed the interception, finding 299 packages of cannabis sativa weighing 216.196 kilograms and detaining the driver and passenger with the Obera federal prosecutor and court ordering the drug and vehicle seized.[2]
The abbreviated-trial agreement at the Posadas Federal Court fixing the four-year and four-years-and-one-month sentences was corroborated by a separate account describing the November 2025 discovery of the load.[3]
