Gendarmería Nacional Argentina seized more than three tonnes of marijuana in five procedures across Misiones province.[1] At the Santa Ana toll post on National Route 12, officers stopped a long-distance bus travelling from Misiones to Buenos Aires.[2] The detector dog Laika reacted to a passenger’s bag and suitcase during the onboard check.[2] From that luggage officers extracted 15 shapeless packages holding 20 kilos of cannabis sativa.[2] The Posadas federal court and prosecutor ordered the bus-load seizure and the detention of the 36-year-old passenger.[2]
Near Garuhapé on Provincial Route 220, after vehicles in a rural area fled in different directions, a search recovered 72 large bundles holding 3,279 rectangular packages with 2,221 kilos 600 grams of cannabis sativa from hills, an abandoned house and a roadside.[2] Officers of the Apóstoles group of Squadron 8 opened three large parcels flagged by the detector dog León.[2] Inside, in front of witnesses, they found 97 rectangular packages of compacted plant matter that field Narcotest testing identified as cannabis sativa, seizing 604 kilos 140 grams.[2] At Puerto Viejo in Puerto Esperanza, after people carrying flashlights fled into the dense monte when challenged, a search found 12 bundles of buds plus two more with 67 rectangular packages, totalling 400 kilos 454 grams of cannabis sativa.[2] On foot patrol along the Paraná near Puerto Laharrague, by the international border with Paraguay, officers found seven stockpiled bundles holding 149 kilos 16 grams of marijuana.[2] After searching the area, officers saw a small boat arriving at the neighbouring country’s shore.[2] The five procedures together yielded 3,395 kilos 210 grams of cannabis sativa.[2]
The Garuhapé load was seized with the intervention of the Oberá federal court and prosecutor.[2] The Eldorado federal court and prosecutor intervened in both Squadron 10 operations at Puerto Esperanza and Puerto Laharrague.[2]
