Argentina’s Airport Security Police (PSA) apprehended four adults and three minors who were moving at high speed through the southern Buenos Aires province with hundreds of doses of marijuana and portioning materials.[1] The seven detentions happened in two operations carried out to guarantee neighbours’ safety.[1]
The first stop happened in Ezeiza near the Ezeiza-Cañuelas highway, when officers spotted a car speeding along Provincial Route 205 and running several red lights.[1] Officers used audible and visual signals to stop the car, identified the driver and companion, and, noticing a strong smell inside the vehicle, carried out an exhaustive inspection.[1] Inside a backpack and a waist pouch officers found a precision scale and 82 wraps of plant material that field-tested positive for marijuana weighing 106.6 grams, and they seized the items together with the occupants’ mobile phones.[1] The two people detained in that stop were placed at the disposal of Instruction and Trial Unit No. 4 under Dr. María Garrido, who ordered them charged with simple possession of narcotics.[1]
The second stop took place in La Unión, Ezeiza, when police saw a van with a blurred licence plate travelling along La Plata street toward El Dorado carrying several people.[1] After stopping the van, officers checked the driver and four other passengers and, in the presence of witnesses, searched the vehicle, finding two jars of green herbs in a door and a revolver in the boot, later confirmed as cannabis weighing 38.2 grams.[1] Those detainees, including three minors, were taken with the seized items to Ezeiza’s 5th police station, with Youth Criminal Responsibility Court No. 2 of Lomas de Zamora and Decentralised Instruction Unit No. 2 of Ezeiza intervening.[1]
