Three men aged 46, 32 and 29 were apprehended inside The Clap nightclub in central Mar del Plata for an alleged breach of the drugs law.[1] The operation took place in the early hours of Saturday near Avenida Luro and Jujuy after police received an alert call warning of possible drug dealing inside the venue.[1] Officers from the Grupo Técnico Operativo of Comisaría Primera and the Patrullas Command identified the three men and apprehended them.[1] El Marplatense corroborates that the three were apprehended during the early hours over alleged dealing inside a macrocentre nightclub.[2]

During the operation officers seized approximately 15 grams of tusi, ten pills of different colours resembling ecstasy, and 3.23 grams of marijuana.[1] On the prosecution’s order officers also seized three mobile phones for the judicial proceedings.[1] According to the first police inquiries, the men had allegedly been selling drugs inside the dance venue.[1] El Marplatense gives the same seizure figures of about 15 grams of tusi, ten ecstasy-like pills and 3.23 grams of marijuana.[2]

The Unidad Funcional de Instrucción de Estupefacientes, under prosecutor Anchu, opened proceedings for breach of article 14, first paragraph, of Law 23,737.[1] It ordered the three men to be notified that proceedings had been opened against them under article 60 of the Criminal Procedure Code.[1] Despite the apprehensions, the prosecution ordered the three men released under article 161 of the Criminal Procedure Code.[1] The investigation continues under the proceedings opened for the alleged drugs-law breach.[1]