143 g of cannabis found hidden in a yerba mate packet at a Posadas police station
Police at the Third Police Station in Posadas found 143 grams of cannabis hidden in a 500-gram packet of yerba mate that a young man had brought for detainees. The case went to federal prosecutors under Argentina's national drug law, and no arrest was reported.
🇦🇷 Comisaría Tercera, Posadas, Misiones · Argentina
- Cannabis
- 143 g
A young man brought food to detainees held in pavilion No. 2 of the Third Police
Station in Posadas, in Argentina’s Misiones province.[1] The delivery included
a 500-gram packet of yerba mate, a herbal infusion drunk in Argentina.[1][2] As
part of routine security checks, officers began inspecting the goods entering
the station.[3] They opened the yerba packet and found a white polyethylene
bag holding a greenish-brown plant substance.[1][2] Specialists from the
Directorate of Dangerous Drugs weighed the substance and tested it; the field
test was positive for cannabis sativa and the weight was 143 grams.[1][2] The
check stopped the packet before it reached the detainees.[3]
The Federal Prosecutor’s Office intervened and called in the Directorate of
Dangerous Drugs, a unit of the Misiones police, to carry out the tests.[1][2] The
detainees in pavilion No. 2 are “procesados”, people held while criminal
proceedings against them continue.[1]
Sources
- Posadas | Llevó yerba para los detenidos, pero la Policía descubrió marihuana oculta en el paquete. MisionesOnline, 31 October 2026. In Spanish.
- Posadas: llevó yerba para los detenidos, pero la Policía descubrió marihuana oculta en el paquete. Prensa Mercosur, 31 October 2026. In Spanish.
- Intentaron ingresar marihuana a una comisaría de Posadas oculta en un paquete de yerba. Primera Edición, 31 October 2026. In Spanish.
Open questions the AI reported
- The articles give no separate date for the seizure; 31 October is the publication date of the first reports.
- RadioUp, published on 1 November, says the procedure took place 'this Sunday', while MisionesOnline and Primera Edición published their accounts on the evening of Saturday 31 October; the report uses 31 October.
- No arrest, charge or court date for the young man who brought the packet was reported.
- No photographer or agency credit was given for the picture of the inspection.
- The reports do not say what happened to the cannabis after it was weighed.
- Left out, as its quotation was not found in Primera Edición: The check took place around 14:30.
- Left out, as its quotation was not found in RadioUp: Proceedings were opened for an alleged violation of National Drug Law No. 23.737, and the case passed to the federal courts.
- Prensa Mercosur's text reproduces the MisionesOnline article already cited almost word for word, so it is not independent corroboration.
