Two youths get 2 years for selling marijuana from Maldonado house
Police raided a house on Avenida Ferreira Aldunate in northern Maldonado city on 12 November 2026 and detained its two occupants, aged 20 and 18. Both were convicted the next day of continued supply of narcotics and sentenced to two years in prison.
🇺🇾 House on Avenida Ferreira Aldunate, northern zone of Maldonado city · Uruguay
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Arrested
2
Sentenced
2
Sites
1
Prison
2 years
Agencies
Área de Investigaciones de la Zona Operacional II, Jefatura de Policía
The two occupants of the house, identified by the initials C.N.M.P., aged 20,
and T.T.P., aged 18, with no criminal record, were detained at the property.[1]After appearing before the court on Friday 13 November, both were convicted
as criminally responsible for a continued offence of supplying narcotic
substances and given a sentence of two years in prison.[1]
The case was investigated over several weeks by officers of the Investigations
Area of Operational Zone II under the direction of the 5th Turn Prosecutor’s
Office, as reported by the Maldonado Police Headquarters to FM Gente.[1]Intelligence work confirmed that drugs were being sold from a house on Avenida
Ferreira Aldunate in the northern zone of the departmental capital.[1]
With the evidence gathered, the Prosecutor’s Office obtained a search warrant
that was executed on 12 November.[1]During the inspection police seized a jar
and two hermetic-seal bags containing marijuana, although no weight for the
seized substance was reported.[1]Officers also seized two precision scales, a
mobile phone and a compressed-air pistol.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
2
Sentenced
2
Sites
1
Prison
2 years
Agencies
Área de Investigaciones de la Zona Operacional II; Jefatura de Policía
Agency type
Police, Prosecutor
Activity
Sale
Setting
Home
Charge
continued supply of narcotic substances (suministro de sustancias estupefacientes)
Case stage
Sentenced
Sentence
Prison
Region
Maldonado
Sources
FM Gentefmgente.com.uyESDos jóvenes condenados a dos años de prisión por vender marihuana en una casa de la avenida Ferreira Aldunate
Open questions the AI reported
FM Gente illustrates the Maldonado sentences with a stock photograph of an Investigaciones vest, so no event photo is listed.
No weight was published for the jar and two bags of marijuana, so no cannabis quantity is recorded.
The seized material was described only as marijuana, with no laboratory confirmation reported.
The investigation is said to have run for several weeks, but its exact start date was not given.
No value estimate was published for the seized marijuana.
Only one accessible source for this event was found after searching in Spanish.
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Arrested 1Charged 1Cannabis 2.966 kgPrison 2 years
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