Gendarmes seize 981 kg of marijuana thrown from boats at Puerto Delicia
Gendarmería Nacional officers patrolling Puerto Delicia, Misiones, saw people throwing bundles from boats at the mouth of the Aguaray Guazú stream and fleeing to the Paraguayan bank, then recovered 33 bundles holding 671 cannabis bricks weighing 981 kilos 705 grams. The Eldorado federal court ordered the drug seized under law 23.737, and no arrests were reported.
🇦🇷 Puerto Delicia, mouth of the arroyo Aguaray Guazú, Misiones · Argentina
Gendarmes of the Montecarlo section of Squadron 10 and the Eldorado unit for
complex crimes were on a foot patrol at Puerto Delicia, on Argentina’s border
with Paraguay, when they saw a group of people throwing large bundles from boats
at the mouth of the Aguaray Guazú stream.[1]Seeing the officers, the people
fled towards the Paraguayan bank, and a search of the area turned up 33 bundles.[1]No one was detained at the scene.[2]
Because the ground was steep and muddy, the Prefectura Naval Argentina, the
coast guard, sent two boats to carry out the officers and all the packages.[1]At the unit, officers counted 671 rectangular bricks that tested positive for
cannabis sativa with the force’s Narcotest field kits, weighing 981 kilos705
grams in all.[1]The federal court and federal prosecutor’s office in Eldorado
ordered the drug seized under Argentina’s national drug law 23.737.[1]Investigations continued to identify those responsible for the load.[2]
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Uncaptioned Gendarmería handout photo published inside its account of the Puerto Delicia seizure, showing the recovered bundles of cannabis. Photo: Gendarmería Nacional Argentina.Photo details
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Source: Argentina.gob.arSecond uncaptioned Gendarmería handout photo from the Puerto Delicia operation, showing the cannabis bricks laid out for counting. Photo: Gendarmería Nacional Argentina.Photo details
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Source: Argentina.gob.arMain image of the Gendarmería release on the Puerto Delicia seizure, showing the operation's recovered bundles. Photo: Gendarmería Nacional Argentina.Photo details
The release gives no separate date for the patrol; 2 December 2024 is its publication date and is used as the incident date.
Nobody was named, detained or charged in either account, and no court outcome beyond the seizure order was reported.
No street value for the 981.705 kg of cannabis was published.
Primera Edición's account closely follows the Gendarmería release and adds little beyond a line that investigations continue, so no fully independent account was found.
The weighing comes from field Narcotest kits, not a laboratory analysis.
The government page publishes a third photo as its main image; its direct address is taken from the page metadata, not from a body image tag.
The precise spot at Puerto Delicia is not mapped; coordinates are the district centre of Montecarlo, the section that carried out the patrol.
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