Security Minister Patricia Bullrich and Naval Prefect chief Eduardo Scarzello presented the results of an anti-drug operation in Puerto Libertad that ended with the seizure of almost 5,000 kilograms of marijuana in the border zone with Paraguay.[1] Prefectura Naval Argentina detected the load in a refuge the previous week, where it was hidden to be collected later.[1] Bullrich visited the exact spot where the drug was found to show the results, saying officers had worked in a hard-to-reach zone where traffickers were cooling the drug to take it to urban centres.[1]
Intelligence work by Prefectura officers led them to a natural refuge at kilometre 1,865 of the Paraná River, where the packages lay under a curtain of branches and leaves.[1] Officers recovered 4,951 kilograms and 330 grams of marijuana, which the force said could supply about 15 million doses.[1] Scarzello said the marijuana had been cooled, meaning stored, to later move it to urban centres for sale.[1]
Officials said the load was waiting for the rest of the gang to distribute it.[1] The Federal Court of Eldorado, under Miguel Ángel Guerrero, took charge of the case.[1]
