Gendarmería Nacional officers seized 4,115 kilos 468 grams of marijuana, which the force calls cannabis sativa, from a truck near Hipólito Yrigoyen, Misiones.[1] The driver jumped from the moving truck near a checkpoint and got away on foot in the dark.[2]

Members of Escuadrón 11 San Ignacio were manning a check on kilometre 1429 of Ruta Nacional 12 when the truck approached, stopped and began reversing.[1] The unmanned truck kept going, broke through a guardrail and fell into a ravine about 8 metres deep.[1] On reaching the wreckage, officers found bundles of marijuana packages scattered on the slope.[1] The truck was a blue Mercedes Benz 1114, abandoned at the bottom of the slope.[2] The federal court in Oberá ordered the drug and the truck seized so that investigators could keep working on the route the load had taken.[1]

Misiones Online republished the Gendarmería account with the same place, checkpoint, ravine and weight.[3] Clarín reported the check was part of the Operativo Conjunto Abierto de Frontera, a federal border-control programme, and that the truck was stopped very close to the border with Paraguay.[2] Security minister Patricia Bullrich described the procedure as everyday cooperation between federal forces, local authorities and criminal intelligence.[2]