Federal judge Alejandro Marcos Gallandat Luzuriaga ordered 169 days of house arrest, until 25 March, for a 19-year-old charged with storing cannabis in Oberá.[1] Prosecutor Viviana Alejandra Vallejos, with assistant prosecutor Alfredo González de la Mata, charged him the day before the prosecutors’ office published the account on 13 October 2026.[1] The judge gave the investigation 90 working days.[1]
The inquiry began on 4 October, after the dangerous-drugs division of the Misiones police in Jardín América reported a maroon pickup at a house in Oberá that appeared to be loaded with drugs.[1] Officers found the vehicle carried a duplicated plate.[1] For three days they watched a black car coming and going.[1]
On a Monday night the pickup tried to leave.[1] Police stopped it.[1] J.L.P.S. was caught after he tried to run and dropped a phone.[1] The driver left the vehicle and got away.[1] El Territorio says the man who was caught is from Panambí and writes his name as Juan P. S.[2]
In the abandoned pickup, officers found 29 bundles weighing 673.116 kg of cannabis: 13 of pressed bricks and 16 of buds, plus a handheld radio and false documents.[1] The vehicle was listed as stolen in Buenos Aires.[1] A search of the house found six more bundles, 67.940 kg, a large scale, a firearm, packing tape, notes and papers in another man’s name.[1] The prosecutors’ office describes the load as more than 740 kg.[1]
Prosecutors said the man who fled, an Argentine who had recently entered from Brazil, was the formal tenant of the rented house.[1] They also said he and the man in custody were renting three flats by word of mouth in the Miguel Lanús neighbourhood of Posadas.[1]
