27-year-old held in Gualeguaychú with 55 wrappings of marijuana
Federal police in Gualeguaychú, Entre Ríos, detained a 27-year-old Argentine man after a street search found 55 nylon wrappings of marijuana weighing close to 200 grams. They seized the drug, two phones and his motorcycle and left him with the local prosecutor's office under the drug law.
🇦🇷 Asisclo Méndez and Lavayén, Gualeguaychú, Entre Ríos · Argentina
Federal police in Gualeguaychú, in Argentina’s Entre Ríos province, detained a
27-year-old Argentine man after stopping his motorcycle for an identity check
and searching him at the intersection of Asisclo Méndez and Lavayén streets.[1]The officers were from the División Unidad Operativa Federal (DUOF)
Gualeguaychú, the federal police’s local operational unit, patrolling with the
DUOF Concepción del Uruguay during an Operativo de Prevención Federal, a federal
crime-prevention drive ordered by the national security ministry.[2]
The search, carried out in front of witnesses, found 55 nylon wrappings of
marijuana weighing close to 200 grams among the man’s belongings.[2]Officers
seized the marijuana together with two mobile phones, the motorcycle and other
items of interest to the case.[2]The ministry’s account gives the haul as 55
wrappings of marijuana without a weight, and also lists two mobile phones and a
motorcycle as seized.[1]
The man was left at the disposal of the on-duty Unidad Fiscal de Gualeguaychú,
the local prosecutor’s office headed that day by Dr. Natalia Bartolo, for an
offence under Argentina’s drug law.[1]El Día placed the arrest in
Gualeguaychú’s Hipódromo neighbourhood and described the case as one of
narcomenudeo, local retail drug dealing, without naming a charge or court.[2]The same ministry statement reported a separate operation in Rosario, Santa Fe,
in which federal police arrested a 44-year-old man and a 34-year-old woman
selling cocaine on Rivadavia street between Oroño and Balcarce and seized 95
wrappings of cocaine.[1]
Photos and video
Federal police officers at the roadside with the seized items laid out beside them during one of the two operations reported on 10 February 2025. Photo: Ministerio de Seguridad Nacional.Photo details
Neither source gives a date separate from publication; 10 February 2025 is the publication date of the ministry statement and El Día's report followed on 11 February, so the incident date uses the publication date.
The ministry statement gives no weight for the marijuana; about 200 grams comes from El Día de Gualeguaychú alone.
The ministry reports two phones and a motorcycle seized, and El Día repeats the same list without a separate source.
No charge, court order or later outcome was reported; the man was left with the on-duty prosecutor.
The two outlets differ on where the stop happened: the ministry names the street corner, El Día's headline places the arrest in the Hipódromo neighbourhood.
The submitted Argentina.gob.ar photo is uncaptioned and not tied to either specific operation, so it is listed as media rather than used as a cover.
The same ministry statement reports a separate Rosario operation in Santa Fe with two other arrests, a different event left out of this report.
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