Carabineros officers and the Maipú local prosecutor’s office broke up a drug sales point operating inside the Población Los Héroes housing estate in Maipú and detained two people.[1] The investigation began with neighbours’ complaints about drug sales in a building in the area, and officers of the Carabineros OS7 unit then carried out surveillance and tailing over several days.[1] With the evidence gathered, the Juzgado de Garantía authorized a search warrant, and the raid was carried out with officers from Control de Orden Público (COP) and the GOPE special operations group, who detained the main suspect and a second person.[1]

During the search officers seized more than two kilos of coca paste, 970 grams of cocaine hydrochloride and 600 grams of marijuana.[1] They also found 122,000 pesos in cash, mostly in low-denomination notes, along with scales and strainers used to measure out drugs, and a firearm magazine with unspent ammunition.[1]

Captain María Belén Galaz of the Carabineros OS7 unit said the raid established a home dedicated to microtrafficking, the local retail sale of drugs, and that the two Chilean detainees were held with the drugs and the money presumed to be their proceeds.[1] The two detainees were handed to the Public Prosecutor’s Office for a detention control hearing over their alleged responsibility for offences under the Drugs Law and the Firearms Control Law.[1]