Three held with 36 kg of marijuana near Garupá; 80 g found on a bus
Gendarmería Nacional officers arrested three people unloading two cars on Ruta Nacional 105 near Garupá, Misiones, and found 72 bundles holding 36 kilograms 25 grams of cannabis sativa. The same release reported 80 grams of cannabis found in a bus's baggage hold and 105 grams of cocaine in a car stopped at the Santa Ana toll.
Before dawn on 24 November 2023, gendarmes saw two cars stopped on the shoulder
of Ruta Nacional 105 near the Garupá roundabout, in Misiones, while three people
unloaded bundles from them.[1]The officers ordered them to halt and arrested
the three, who had tried to flee.[1]In front of witnesses they counted 72
bundles, whose contents tested positive for cannabis sativa and weighed 36
kilograms25 grams.[1]The three were held incommunicado, and the magistrates
handling each case ordered the drugs seized.[1]
In another procedure, officers of the El Arco road section, part of Escuadrón 50
Posadas, stopped a long-distance bus travelling from Posadas to Formosa at
kilometre 1,327 of Ruta Nacional 12.[1]In the baggage hold they smelled
marijuana and found a plastic package holding 80 grams of cannabis sativa in a
bag.[1]
At the Santa Ana toll, Escuadrón 11 San Ignacio stopped a car carrying two
people, and after a drug dog marked one passenger’s pockets the gendarmes found
105 grams of cocaine in a field test.[1]The magistrates in each case ordered
the drugs and all items of interest to the case seized.[1]La Gaceta, a
Tucumán newspaper, carried the same Gendarmería account, reporting 72 bundles
with a positive reaction for cannabis sativa and a weight of 36 kilograms25
grams.[2]
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Only the Garupá operation is dated, to 'this dawn' on 24 November 2023; the release gives no date for the bus stop on Ruta Nacional 12 or the Santa Ana toll stop.
No total across the three procedures was published; the 36.105 kg figure is the sum of 36 kilograms 25 grams at Garupá and 80 grams found on the bus.
The 105 grams of cocaine seized at the Santa Ana toll are not cannabis and are excluded from the figures.
No charges, prosecutor's office or court was named, and no outcome beyond the incommunicado detention and the seizure orders was reported.
The plant material was identified by Narcotest field tests, not laboratory analysis.
The three detainees' names, ages and nationalities were not published.
The release does not say where the 72 bundles came from or were bound for, or whether they had crossed a border.
No arrest was reported at the bus stop on Ruta Nacional 12, where the 80 grams were seized.
The whole account comes from the Gendarmería release and a newspaper reprint of it, with no independent reporting found.
Misiones police deployed thousands of officers in a province-wide mega security operation from the night of 12 November 2026, yielding seizures, detentions and stolen-goods recovery. In Posadas, officers of the Ninth Precinct and the Dangerous Drugs Division seized nine packages totalling 12.535 kg of marijuana near the bypass and Avenida 213 after an anonymous tip.
Federal police stopped a man on Avenida Ramón Navarro in barrio Mis Montañas, La Rioja, during a midday prevention operation and seized marijuana found on him. The man was placed at the disposal of the Federal Justice; no weight or charge has been reported.
During a preventive patrol in barrio Confluencia of Neuquén, police intercepted a car with three occupants after a neighbour's alert and seized 45 grams of cannabis sativa. No detentions or judicial measures were reported.
Police in Juan José Castelli, Chaco, seized 5.348 kilograms of marijuana hidden in weeds beside a rural road after a tip. A man who arrived on a Honda Tornado to collect a package dropped it and escaped, and the case was opened under National Law 23.737.
