Four held as Gendarmería finds 387 cannabis seedlings in Mendoza raids
Gendarmería Nacional officers searched two homes in Malargüe and San Rafael and seized 387 cannabis seedlings, 721 grams of cannabis and 10,000 seeds, detaining two people. In a vehicle stop near Paraje La Junta officers seized 2 kg 21 g of marijuana and detained a couple, and a bus check found another 202.5 grams, bringing the total to four detained.
🇦🇷 Malargüe and San Rafael, Mendoza · Argentina
Plants destroyed
387
Cannabis
2.9435 kg
Seeds
10,000
Agencies
Gendarmería Nacional Argentina, Fiscalía Descentralizada de San Rafael
Gendarmería Nacional officers of the Malargüe Squadron 29 searched two homes, in
Malargüe and in San Rafael, under a federal case for suspected infringement of
Argentina’s drug law, Law 23.737.[1]
In the two homes the officers seized 387 marijuana seedlings of different sizes,
721 grams of cannabis sativa buds and crushed leaf, 10,000 seeds, two precision
scales, pipes, mobile phones and documents.[1]Two people were arrested in the
house searches, and the case is before the San Rafael decentralised prosecutors’
office and Federal Court No. 1 of San Rafael.[1]
A second operation on a secondary road near Paraje La Junta stopped a rented
vehicle carrying a driver, a woman and three minors, and the sniffer dog Mambo
indicated six bags of a brown substance.[1]Officers seized 2 kilograms21
grams of marijuana from the vehicle and detained the two adults, while the three
minors were handed over to relatives under a written record.[1]On a passenger
bus, two packages found under the seats held another 202.5 grams of cannabis
sativa.[2]
Ser y Hacer de Malargüe said one of the two searched homes was in Malargüe town
and the other at Paraje La Junta.[3]
Photos and video
Cannabis seedlings and seized items from the two searched homes in Malargüe and San Rafael, in a Gendarmería Nacional handout published with its statement. Photo: Gendarmería Nacional ArgentinaPhoto details
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Source: Gendarmería Nacional Argentina / Argentina.gob.arThe two packages of cannabis sativa found under the seats of a passenger bus, in a Gendarmería Nacional handout. Photo: Gendarmería Nacional ArgentinaPhoto details
No date is given for the searches, the vehicle stop or the bus check; 17 October 2025 is the date of the Gendarmería statement and is used as the incident date.
Ser y Hacer de Malargüe places one searched home in Malargüe town and the other at Paraje La Junta, while Gendarmería says the two homes were in Malargüe and San Rafael; the Malargüe a Diario report adds no location, so the exact addresses remain unclear.
Gendarmería's short summary says more than 2 kg of marijuana was seized in road checks and that a couple was detained, while its body text gives 2 kg 21 g from the vehicle, 202.5 g from the bus, and states that only the two adults in the vehicle were detained; the body text is used.
The announcement's lead says 722 g of marijuana in the home searches while the body gives 721 g; the body figure is used.
The 2.94 kg total groups 721 g, 2,021 g and 202.5 g from three separate procedures, so it cannot be attributed to a single location.
The material is described as marijuana and cannabis sativa without any reported laboratory confirmation.
The three minors in the vehicle were handed to relatives and are not counted as detained; it is not reported whether any of them was referred to a juvenile court.
No charges, pleas or court outcomes were reported for the four detainees, and no value estimate was published.
El Editor Mendoza reports the four detained as three men and one woman but says the searches were in San Rafael and describes the vehicle stop differently, and gives the bus find as about two grams; those figures are not used.
Malargüe a Diario and Ser y Hacer de Malargüe reproduce the Gendarmería statement and the handout photos, so they are not independent reporting of the raids.
The Malargüe a Diario page is illustrated with advertising banners, so only the Gendarmería page's own handout images are listed as media.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Ser y Hacer de Malargüe: In all, three men and one woman were detained in the three procedures.
Left out arrested, as its quotation was not found in Ser y Hacer de Malargüe.
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