Two held as 81 kg of marijuana found in a truck cab at Bompland
Gendarmes stopped a cargo truck travelling from Uruguaiana in Brazil to San Francisco in Córdoba at the inactive Bompland toll booth on Ruta Nacional 14 in Corrientes, and a drug dog marked the cab. A search found 111 packages weighing 81 kilos 72 grams of cannabis sativa and two Argentine men were held on the order of the Federal Court of Paso de los Libres.
🇦🇷 Ruta Nacional 14 at kilometre 480, Peaje Inactivo Bompland, Paso de los Libres, Corrientes · Argentina
Gendarmes of Escuadrón 7 Paso de los Libres “Cabo Misael Pereyra” stopped a
cargo truck on Ruta Nacional 14 at kilometre 480, by the inactive Bompland toll
booth, in the early hours of the morning.[1]The truck was travelling from
Uruguaiana in Brazil to San Francisco in Córdoba, and two adult Argentine men
were on board.[1]The anti-narcotics dog “Nico” signalled drugs when it passed
the cab, prompting a more thorough search.[1]
Inside five boxes the officers found 111 rectangular packages.[1]Narcotest
field tests by the force’s criminalistics staff were positive for “cannabis
sativa”, with a total weight of 81 kilos72 grams.[1]The Federal Court of
Paso de los Libres ordered the drug, the vehicle, the mobile phones and other
items of interest to the case seized, and both men detained.[1]
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Lead image of the Gendarmería release on the truck stopped at the Bompland toll booth. Photo: Gendarmería Nacional Argentina.Photo details
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