Four held as 8,889 kg of marijuana found in a Misiones farm truck
Gendarmería Nacional detained four people after finding 8,889 kilograms of marijuana, valued by prosecutors at 1,370 million pesos, in a truck hidden on a farm in Gobernador Roca, Misiones. Investigators say the family-based organization brought the drug by boat from Paraguay and stored it at properties with private ports along the Paraná.
Gendarmería Nacional detained four people after a series of raids that began at
a farm in Gobernador Roca, Misiones.[1]Officers found 8,889 kilograms of
marijuana hidden in a truck on the farm, a load the federal prosecutor’s office
valued at 1,370 million pesos.[1]The raiding party found 8,889 kilos of
marijuana in the daylight search.[1]The Gendarmerie said the drug was packed
in 463 bundles inside the semitrailer of a Volvo truck.[2]The Gendarmerie’s
own weighing put the load at 8,829 kilograms87 grams.[2]The four detainees
began giving statements before the Federal Criminal Court of Posadas the day the
prosecutor’s statement was published.[1]The prosecutor’s office said two more
people were being sought and that it would push a financial investigation to
seize the organization’s assets.[1]
The magistrate ordered searches of six addresses in Posadas, Gobernador Roca,
Jardín América, Puerto Rico, Colonia Polana and Colonia Gisela.[2]Those
searches turned up nine vehicles, two boats and three firearms, among other
property.[2]Perfil reported separately that the money, the two boats and the
firearms were confiscated in the raids.[3]Gendarmes had spotted the hidden
truck on the night of Monday 5 October, and carried out the searches in daylight
the next day.[1]The farm belonged to the brother of the man identified as the
organization’s leader, and the prosecutor’s office said tapped calls linked him
to a Paraguayan supplier who asked for a place to hide the truck.[1]The
investigation ran for a year and included transcribing more than 230 CDs of
tapped calls, slowed by COVID-19 health measures and a shortage of staff for the
wiretaps.[1]
Investigators say the organization bought properties on the Paraná riverbank
with their own ports to bring the marijuana into Argentina by boat from
Paraguay, then move it overland.[2]Prosecutors are pursuing aggravated drug
trafficking, criminal association and money-laundering charges, noting the
suspects held no registered jobs but owned high-end cars and strategic
properties.[1]
Photos and video
The seized marijuana and part of the property taken from the organization. Photo: Fiscalía Federal N°2 de PosadasPhoto details
Source: Fiscales.gob.ar (Ministerio Público Fiscal)Third handout image published with the Posadas federal prosecutor's statement, captioned only 'Imágenes: Fiscalía Federal N°2 de Posadas'. Photo: Fiscalía Federal N°2 de PosadasPhoto details
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Open questions the AI reported
The prosecutor's office gives the load as 8,889 kilos and the Gendarmerie as 8,829 kilos 87 grams; the report uses the prosecutor's figure as the headline total and notes the Gendarmerie's weighed figure.
The 1,370 million pesos is an official valuation of the load, not a sale price.
Sources disagree on the search date: the prosecutor's statement says the detainees were held on Tuesday and mentions the evening of Monday 5 as when the truck was spotted, while some other reporting describes the main raid on 7 or 8 October 2020. The incident date used is 6 October 2020, the Tuesday the source names.
The prosecutor's statement refers to the four detainees collectively; no names, ages or nationalities are given there, and no charges had been formally laid when it was published.
No court outcome, sentence or final weight was reported in the sources opened for this account.
The two people the prosecutor's office said were being sought are not identified, and their later status is unknown.
The third photo on the prosecutor's page carries no caption, so what it shows beyond the credit is not confirmed.
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