Prefectura seizes 380 kg of marijuana in Puerto Rico; two held
Prefectura Naval Argentina seized 380 kilograms of marijuana packed in 478 bricks in a boat moored on the coast at Puerto Rico, Misiones, and detained two men. The Federal Court in Oberá ordered the drug seized and the men detained, with officials valuing the load at 900 million pesos.
🇦🇷 Puerto Rico, Misiones · Argentina
Arrested
2
Cannabis
380 kg
Agencies
Prefectura Naval Argentina, Juzgado Federal de Oberá
Prefectura Naval Argentina officers carrying out control operations in Puerto
Rico, Misiones, spotted several people handling bundles along a path.[1]The
officers approached the suspects, gave the order to stop and immediately
detained two men.[1]
Officers then found a boat moored on the coast holding multiple packages, which
suspects had been loading via a leafy path.[1]They inspected the boat and
found 380 kilograms of marijuana divided into 478 bricks packed in 19 boxes.[1]Official sources put the load’s value at 900 million pesos.[1]
The Federal Court in Oberá ordered the seizure of the goods and the detention of
those involved.[1]Argentina’s official Prefectura account confirms two men
were detained and more than 380 kilograms of marijuana were seized in Puerto
Rico.[2]That account says the load was 478 bricks in 19 boxes worth more than
900 million pesos, under the Oberá court of Miguel Ángel Guerrero and María
Virginia Guida.[2]A third account repeats that the coastal boat held 478
panes in 19 boxes and the same Oberá court ordered the seizure and detentions.[3]
Photos and video
Photos of the path used by the suspects and the boat holding the 380-kg load on the coast. Photo: InfobaePhoto details
No names, ages or nationalities were published for the two detained men, and no later charge or court outcome was reported.
The 900 million pesos is the authorities' valuation, not an independently established market price.
The same Infobae page recounts a 7,949 kg Gendarmería truck seizure near Montecarlo and a 58 kg abandonment on Route 12; those are separate events left out of this report.
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Salta police from the División Investigación Narcocriminal Valle de Lerma found five men beside a vehicle on Provincial Route 21 near Cielos del Sur; four fled and officers seized about 700 doses of pasta base and marijuana from a 24-year-old man. By order of the flagrancy prosecutor, the man was cited under the Narcotics Act 23.737.
Police searched two properties in the El Porvenir neighborhood of Formosa city and seized machetes, rubber batons, a homemade gun ("tumbera"), projectiles, and marijuana confirmed by the anti-drug directorate. A 15-year-old boy linked to a separate threats case was detained during the first search, and separate judicial proceedings were opened before the Anti-Drug Crime Court.
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