Man held in Mendoza over 2.06 kg of marijuana in pan dulce parcel
Gendarmería Nacional officers intercepted a parcel from Misiones on Ruta Nacional 14 in Entre Ríos on 11 December 2021 and found 2 kilos 64 grams of marijuana inside four pan dulce wrappers. After a court-ordered controlled delivery and four days of surveillance, officers detained a man near a postal parcel depot in Villa Nueva, Mendoza, as he moved to collect the box.
🇦🇷 Ruta Nacional 14 (km 124.5), Entre Ríos, and Villa Nueva, Mendoza · Argentina
Gendarmería Nacional, Argentina’s national gendarmerie, detained a man in Villa
Nueva, Mendoza province, who had been tasked with collecting a parcel of
cannabis sativa sent from Misiones with Mendoza as its final destination.[1]Officers of the force’s Mendoza Complex Crimes and Judicial Procedures
Investigations Unit spotted the man near a postal parcel depot after four days
of surveillance as he prepared to pick up the guarded box.[1]Acting on
instructions from the magistrate handling the case, the gendarmes detained the
man and seized the marijuana and cash.[1]
The parcel had been intercepted on 11 December 2021 at kilometre 124.5 of Ruta
Nacional 14 in Entre Ríos province, where officers of Escuadrón 6 “Concepción
del Uruguay” were alerted by a narcotics-detection dog while inspecting a
parcel-transport truck.[2]Inside the box, officers found 2 kilos64 grams of
marijuana inside four wrappers of pan dulce, a traditional Argentine sweet
bread.[1]
Federal Court No. 1 of Concepción del Uruguay, headed by Dr. Pablo Andres Seró
with its human rights secretariat under Dr. Mariano Gaspar Fornasari, ordered an
“entrega vigilada”, a controlled delivery with tracking and preservation of the
parcel under judicial custody.[1]
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Source: Argentina.gob.ar (Gendarmería Nacional Argentina)Uncaptioned Gendarmería handout photo placed after the passage on the arrest in Villa Nueva, Mendoza, and the seizure of marijuana and cash. Photo: Gendarmería Nacional Argentina.Photo details
The exact date of the arrest in Villa Nueva, Mendoza, is not stated; the parcel was intercepted on 11 December 2021 and the detention followed four days of surveillance before the 20 December announcement.
No name, age, nationality or formal criminal charge for the detained man was published, and no subsequent court outcome was reported.
The amount of cash seized during the arrest in Villa Nueva was not disclosed, and no street value was given for the marijuana.
The exact location of the postal parcel depot in Villa Nueva was not published; the coordinates mark Concepción del Uruguay near kilometre 124.5 of Ruta Nacional 14 where the parcel was intercepted.
Neither the sender in Misiones nor the courier company carrying the parcel was named, and the accounts do not report a laboratory confirmation of the substance.
No independent media reporting of the seizure and arrest was found; the account rests on Gendarmería Nacional's own statement and its republication.
The four photographs published with the Gendarmería Nacional statement carry no captions or individual descriptions.
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