Sander Camargo Dos Santos, a Brazilian citizen, went on trial at the Tribunal Oral en lo Criminal Federal de Posadas on 11 November 2026.[1] The case concerns a truck stopped two years earlier on Ruta Provincial 1 between San José and Apóstoles.[2] Joao Pedro Monteiro Correa, his co-defendant, agreed to an eight-year prison sentence under an abbreviated trial for aggravated possession of drugs for sale.[2] Camargo Dos Santos said it was his first offence and that he would accept an abbreviated sentence of less than eight years.[2] The court is made up of judges Ruth María Ponce de León, Fabián Cardozo and Juan Manuel Iglesias, with Iglesias sitting as a substitute.[2] The trial resumes on 20 November with the first witnesses.[2]

Gendarmes stopped a white Volkswagen truck with a blue-tarped semi-trailer on Ruta Provincial 1 on 11 November 2024.[2] A grey Peugeot 408 fled towards Apóstoles and its occupants fired at the gendarmes, who returned fire.[2] The Peugeot was later found abandoned, without its driver, with several holes from gunfire.[2] Officers followed the two men to Apóstoles and arrested them there.[2] The trailer held 327 plastic bales with 8,806 blocks of pressed marijuana.[2] A sniffer dog named León alerted officers to the load, which weighed 7,018 kg.[2] The charge is possession of drugs for commercial sale, aggravated by the involvement of three or more people.[2] Both accused are held in federal prisons, Monteiro Correa in Resistencia and Camargo Dos Santos in Marcos Paz, and joined the hearing by video link.[2]

Monteiro Correa’s agreement will be ratified after the trial of his co-defendant ends.[2] Prosecutors say the two guarded the truck and its load with others who have not been identified or arrested.[3] The hearing was due to begin at 8am.[1] It was held at the court on Félix de Azara 2170 in Posadas.[1] Prosecutor Pablo Ricardo Di Loreto and public defender Mariano Romero took part in the case.[1]