Coast guard finds 16 kg of marijuana in a sack on the Chaco riverbank
Prefectura Naval Argentina seized almost 16 kilograms of marijuana, packed in 17 bricks, in a burlap sack on the bank of the Paraguay River at Puerto Bermejo Viejo, Chaco. The coast guard valued the load at more than two million pesos and acted on the instructions of the Federal Prosecutor's Office in Resistencia.
🇦🇷 Kilometre 28 of the Paraguay River, Puerto Bermejo Viejo, Chaco · Argentina
Officers of Prefectura Naval Argentina, the coast guard, seized almost 16
kilograms of marijuana on the bank of the Paraguay River at Puerto Bermejo
Viejo, in Chaco province.[1]
The seizure followed a patrol carried out as part of crime-prevention duties at
kilometre 28 of the Paraguay River.[1]The patrol found the marijuana inside a
burlap sack.[1]The marijuana was packed in 17 bricks, which the Prefectura
valued at more than two million pesos.[1]The seizure was made on the
instructions of the Federal Prosecutor’s Office in Resistencia, headed by Dr.
Juan Marcelo Burella Acevedo.[1]
The Chaco daily Diario Norte reported the same 16-kilogram seizure at Puerto
Bermejo Viejo the same day.[2]Diario Norte also gave the location as
kilometre 28 of the river and the sack of burlap.[2]The Chaco outlet Noticias
del Paraná republished the Prefectura’s account under its own masthead a day
later.[3]
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Source: Argentina.gob.ar (Noticias de la PNA)Featured image of the same Puerto Bermejo Viejo riverbank seizure, used by the Prefectura as the page's main picture. Photo: Prefectura Naval ArgentinaPhoto details
The sources give no separate operation date; 28 August 2022 is the Prefectura's publication date and is used as the incident date.
The weight is stated only as «casi 16 kilos» (almost 16 kilograms), so 16 kg is stored as the nearest stated figure rather than a laboratory weight.
The value of more than two million pesos is the authorities' estimate and no exchange-rate conversion was applied.
No arrests, suspect identities, charges or court outcome are reported, and the accounts do not say who the sack belonged to.
Diario Norte reproduces the Prefectura's statement and Noticias del Paraná is a further reprint of it, so the three opened accounts are not independent.
The featured image on the agency page is an additional handout picture of the same riverbank seizure that may show the same scene as the main photo.
A December 2021 Prefectura statement reports a separate find of more than 12 kg of marijuana at Puerto Bermejo Viejo; it is another event and is left out of this report.
Police in Salta detained a 26-year-old driver during a vehicle checkpoint on Ruta Nacional 9 in Campo Alegre, La Caldera. Officers from the División Investigación Narcocriminal 2 seized 70 doses of marijuana and cocaine after preliminary field tests.
Road police at the Subfluvial Tunnel control post identified a 33-year-old Buenos Aires man carrying cocaine and marijuana in a van. Field tests confirmed 2.1 grams of marijuana alongside 5.9 grams of cocaine, and the case was treated as simple possession.
Cleaning staff found a package of marijuana on a long-distance bus that had arrived at the Chajarí terminal in Entre Ríos after leaving Paraná, and the drivers called the police. Officers of the Federación department drug division tested and seized the substance and left the case with the prosecutor's office, with no one arrested.
Chaco police securing a woman's belongings from a room she rented in Resistencia found two cannabis seedlings, marijuana flowers and indoor growing equipment, and anti-drug officers' field tests were positive for marijuana. The woman was detained after another clash with the owner and released on the order of the anti-drug prosecutor's office, which kept the items but not the cash.
