Two women held in Godoy Cruz after marijuana packets found
Mendoza police apprehended two women in Godoy Cruz after they tried to flee an identification check on a motorcycle. Packets of marijuana were found on one of them, and both were left with the local fiscal office.
🇦🇷 Rawson and Vélez Sarsfield, Godoy Cruz, Mendoza · Argentina
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Officers of the Unidad de Acción Preventiva (UAP), the preventive-action unit of
the Policía de Mendoza, apprehended two women in Godoy Cruz after the pair tried
to leave when police moved to identify them.[1]The flight started there and
ended a few blocks away, where both women were stopped.[1]
In the search that followed, officers found packets of marijuana among one
woman’s belongings.[1]Both women were placed at the disposal of the Oficina
Fiscal de Godoy Cruz, the local prosecutors’ office that handles cases from that
department.[1]
The stop came during a series of preventive patrols the same unit carried out
across Gran Mendoza, the urban area that includes the provincial capital,
Guaymallén and Godoy Cruz.[1]
No weight or number of marijuana packets was published.
Neither woman was named, and no charge or court outcome was reported.
The stop is dated from publication on 29 October 2026 and described only as happening in the preceding hours, so the exact time is not known.
The same patrol roundup includes separate stops in Capital and Guaymallén over a stolen car, a knife and a replica pistol, which are left out of this report.
Photos on the Diario Mendoza page are labeled only as an operation or a fiscal office and were omitted because they may not show the cannabis seizure.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Diario Mendoza: They were riding a Zanella ZB motorcycle of 110 cubic centimetres near the junction of Rawson and Vélez Sarsfield.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Diario Mendoza: The motorcycle was retained because it had no documentation, rear-view mirrors or helmet.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Diario Mendoza: Police described the Godoy Cruz incident as ending with the two women held and the marijuana packets seized.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Diario Mendoza: The drug was found on one of the women only; both were nevertheless handed to the fiscal office after the chase.
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