Gendarmería Nacional detained two adult men after officers of Squadron 12 Bernardo de Irigoyen and the Comandante Fontana reconnaissance unit intercepted one of two cars that fled a control on Ruta Provincial Nº 17 at kilometre 41 in Misiones.[1] The car carried five bundles holding 226 rectangular packages of marijuana, weighing 148 kilos 578 grams, on the rear seat and in the boot.[1] The federal courts and prosecutors’ offices of Oberá and Eldorado ordered the drug and the vehicle seized and both detainees held.[2]

In the other operation, a foot patrol of the Jardín América section of Squadron 11 San Ignacio found 11 large bundles in vegetation on the bank of the Paraná at Puerto Falso Rutilo.[1] A Narcotest field test identified the contents as cannabis sativa, weighing 240 kilos 570 grams in 338 rectangular packages.[1] The load was being kept among the vegetation, waiting for traffickers to move it into the country’s drug distribution circuit.[1]

The Gendarmería put the haul at more than 380 kilos of marijuana, and the two stated weights sum to 389 kilos 148 grams.[1] The government estimated the value of the haul at 1,201,470,440 pesos.[1] Both operations were carried out under Plan Guaçurarí, a National Security Ministry plan to prevent crime on the border with Brazil.[1]