Gendarmes of the Misiones investigations unit of Gendarmería Nacional, supported by the high-complexity joint operations group GOC-NEA and Squadron 11 San Ignacio, closed a ten-month inquiry into a drug-trafficking ring based in San Vicente, Misiones, and intercepted a Ford Ka acting as a scout car and a large truck.[1] Officers took the trailer apart and found a false floor and a second compartment behind the cab holding 2,087 bricks and 24 bags of marijuana buds.[1] A Narcotest field test, carried out in front of witnesses, confirmed cannabis sativa weighing 1,644 kilos 788 grams.[1]

The federal court of Posadas, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office No. 2 of Posadas and the drug-trafficking prosecution unit PROCUNAR ordered 13 searches at properties in Misiones and Buenos Aires province.[1] Those searches produced a further 545 kilos 450 grams of marijuana found at one home.[1] The force put its total for the case at 2,190 kilos 238 grams of marijuana, and also seized a firearm, two scales, six vehicles, 39,700 US dollars, 1,077,000 Argentine pesos and electronic storage devices.[1] Five people were detained, among them a member the force described as an important link in the organisation, and a woman was placed at the disposal of the case.[1] The proceedings are for infringement of Law 23.737, Argentina’s narcotics law, in a case opened at the end of 2025.[1]

Gendarmería said that over the ten months of the inquiry it seized 13,294 kilos 884 grams of cannabis sativa in Misiones linked to the organisation.[1] Primera Edición attributed the account to the Ministry of Security and reported five detainees and the seizure of more than 2,190 kilos of the drug.[2] Mirador Provincial reported that the case file began in December 2025, when investigators seized more than seven tonnes of marijuana hidden in a truck, and that officers continued working with the Misiones provincial police.[3]