Two held as 45.8 kg of marijuana found in two tanker trucks near Piedritas
Gendarmería officers stopped two Paraguayan fuel tankers at the Piedritas toll booth on Ruta Nacional 14 in Corrientes and found 103 plastic packages holding 45 kilos 822 grams of cannabis sativa stowed in their side lockers. The federal court and prosecutor's office in Paso de los Libres ordered both drivers detained and the drug and both trucks seized.
🇦🇷 Peaje Piedritas, kilometre 363 of Ruta Nacional 14, Monte Caseros department, Corrientes · Argentina
Gendarmes of the Sección Monte Caseros, part of Escuadrón 7 Paso de los Libres
“Cabo Misael Pereyra”, were carrying out roadside prevention work at kilometre
363 of Ruta Nacional 14, at the Piedritas toll booth, when they stopped two
trucks with foreign plates carrying hydrocarbons.[1]The two fuel tankers had
set out from Asunción, Paraguay, and were bound for the city of Campana in
Buenos Aires province.[1]
The paperwork presented by the drivers showed no irregularities, but a thorough
inspection of the vehicles found 103 plastic packages stowed in the side lockers
of each truck, holding plant buds with a strong smell resembling marijuana.[1]The unit’s criminalistics and forensic studies staff ran Narcotest field tests
on the samples, which came back positive for Cannabis Sativa with a total weight
of 45 kilos822 grams.[1]The two trucks were also put through the scanner at
the Complejo Terminal de Cargas (COTECAR), the cargo terminal scanner, whose
high-contrast images confirmed they hid no larger quantities of drugs elsewhere.[2]
The Federal Court and the Federal Prosecutor’s Office of Paso de los Libres
ordered both drivers detained and the drug and both trucks seized.[1]Radio
Libertad reported that the two drivers were being held incommunicado.[2]The
Ministry of National Security’s own release on the same operation said
Gendarmería also held both drivers, but it published no value for the load.[3]
Noticias Chajarí reported that the seizure happened near the Corrientes town of
Juan Pujol and that the two trucks were Paraguayan-flagged, crediting Diario El
Litoral de Corrientes.[4]
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Gendarmería photo published as the lead image of the release on the Piedritas toll-booth stop, showing the operation on the two foreign-flagged fuel tankers. Photo: Gendarmería Nacional ArgentinaPhoto details
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Source: Argentina.gob.ar (Gendarmería Nacional Argentina)Gendarmería photo placed beside the passage on stopping the two trucks at kilometre 363 of Ruta Nacional 14. Photo: Gendarmería Nacional ArgentinaPhoto details
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Source: Argentina.gob.ar (Gendarmería Nacional Argentina)Gendarmería photo placed beside the passage on the 103 plastic packages found in the side lockers of the trucks. Photo: Gendarmería Nacional ArgentinaPhoto details
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Source: Argentina.gob.ar (Gendarmería Nacional Argentina)Gendarmería photo placed beside the passage on the Narcotest result and the 45 kilos 822 grams of cannabis sativa. Photo: Gendarmería Nacional ArgentinaPhoto details
The releases give no separate date for the roadside check; 20 May 2024 is the publication date of both government accounts and is used as the incident date.
Neither the release nor the outlets name the two drivers or give their ages or nationalities, and no later charge or court outcome was reported.
The value of 224,289,552.50 pesos appears only in Radio Libertad's account, not in either government release, so it is not published in the text and is recorded as that outlet's figure.
Both government releases say the 103 packages were stowed in the side lockers of each truck, without saying how the packages were split between the two vehicles.
The substance was identified by Narcotest field tests positive for Cannabis Sativa, not by laboratory analysis.
Noticias Chajarí places the stop near Juan Pujol and says the trucks were Paraguayan-flagged, while the releases name only foreign plates and the Piedritas toll booth in the Monte Caseros department.
The four photos carry no captions or credits; their contents are described only from their placement in the release around the stop, inspection, field-test and seizure passages.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Radio Libertad: Radio Libertad put the load's total appraised value at 224,289,552.50 pesos.
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