Nearly 600 kg of marijuana seized from river boats in Misiones
Prefectura Naval Argentina seized 23 bundles holding 539 marijuana bricks, almost 600 kg, from a beached boat at Puerto Urfer, Puerto Rico, Misiones. The authorities valued the load at more than 1,300 million pesos and the federal prosecutor in Oberá took over the case.
🇦🇷 Puerto Urfer, Puerto Rico, Misiones · Argentina
Prefectura Naval Argentina seized almost 600 kilograms of marijuana in Puerto
Rico, Misiones.[1]The force answers to the national Security Ministry and the
account describes the haul as a multimillion-peso cargo.[1]The operation grew
out of the force’s constant patrols to protect the river border and prevent
crime.[1]Officers at an observation post spotted two boats loaded with
bundles crossing at kilometre 1728,5 of the Paraná River at Puerto Urfer, and
watched one of them return to its country of origin.[1]The sighting occurred
at kilometre 1728,5 of the Paraná River, identified in the account as Puerto
Urfer.[1]
The border guard vessel GC-195 Guaraní and another force launch immediately
headed to the area and found a boat beached on the shore with bundles inside it
and scattered around it.[1]The subsequent search recovered 23 bundles holding
539 marijuana bricks weighing almost 600 kilos.[1]
The authorities put the value of that load at more than 1,300 million pesos.[1]The Federal Prosecutor’s Office in Oberá, Misiones, took over the case.[1]
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The moment the boat was intercepted on the river. Photo: PFA, via El Litoral.Photo details
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Source: El LitoralThe seized cargo laid out after the search. Photo: PFA, via El Litoral.Photo details
Video of the detection of the drug cargo crossing by water toward Argentina. Source: El Litoral
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Cannabis
600 kg
Value (official estimate)
ARS 1,300,000,000
Agency type
Border guard, Prosecutor
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis (600 kg)
Setting
Vehicle
Case stage
Under investigation
Sources
El Litoralellitoral.comES"Flores acuáticas": incautaron 600 kilos de marihuana cruzando a Argentina en lanchas
Open questions the AI reported
The article gives no separate date for the operation; 7 June 2024 is its publication date and is used as the incident date.
No arrests or detentions were reported in the account.
Almost 600 kilos is an approximate weight stated by the authorities and is stored as 600 kg.
The value of more than 1,300 million pesos is the authorities' estimate; the article says pesos without specifying the code, recorded here as Argentine pesos.
Only one accessible account of this event was found after searching in Spanish and English, so no second source could be opened.
The account does not name the country of origin to which one boat returned; the crossing into Argentina is stated in the headline while the body refers only to its country of origin.
The two event photos are captioned as credit PFA while the body attributes the procedure to Prefectura Naval Argentina (PNA).
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