Police in Neuquén city arrested a man and a woman in a raid on a house in the barrio Limay on Wednesday 4 November 2026, and both were placed at the disposal of the courts.[1] The provincial government said the search warrant was executed on the Wednesday at 11 am.[2] A woman and a man lived in the house and were suspected of selling drugs by delivery, according to the provincial government.[2] The inquiry began with information provided by the Ministerio Público Fiscal, the provincial public prosecutor’s office.[3]
Officers seized cannabis wrappings, more than 250 grams of cocaine hydrochloride, about 140,000 pesos in cash, a high-end car, mobile phones, electronic devices, precision scales and materials used for packaging substances.[1][4] The seized cannabis from the suspects’ home weighed 1.7 grams, while an earlier raid on an associated house in barrio El Trébol had seized 438.1 grams of marijuana.[4] The cannabis was recorded only as wrappings, with no weight published, so the cocaine haul is not counted as cannabis in this report.[3]
Both suspects were held and charged with a suspected breach of Ley Nacional 23.737, Argentina’s drug law, in a case handled by the Unidad Fiscal de Narcocriminalidad under prosecutor María Paula Yerfino.[2][4] At a charge hearing on 6 November 2026, guarantee judge Juan Manuel Kees accepted aggravated drug trafficking charges and opened a four-month investigation period.[4] Judge Kees ordered four months of pre-trial detention for the man and released the woman with weekly police check-ins and contact restrictions.[4] The provincial government presented the raid as part of Neuquén’s defederalisation of microtrafficking, the policy that lets provincial courts and police handle certain drug-dealing offences.[2] Mejor Informado, a Neuquén outlet, carried the same account, including ten anti-narcotics officers, two patrol cars and the referral to the drug prosecution unit.[5] Infobae placed the Limay raid above a separate Neuquén case in which six people were charged over cocaine and marijuana sales after raids on Thursday 29 October 2026, which is not part of this report.[1]
