8,110 kg of marijuana seized near Puerto Rico, Misiones
Prefectura Naval Argentina seized 8,110 kg of marijuana from a cache hidden in forest vegetation near Puerto Rico, Misiones. The seizure comprised 11,954 bricks, and the agency put its commercial value above 500.9 million pesos.
🇦🇷 Near Puerto Natural Luján, kilometre 1,754 of the Paraná River, Puerto Rico, Misiones · Argentina
Prefectura Naval Argentina (PNA), Argentina’s coast guard, seized8,110
kilograms of marijuana hidden in forest near Puerto Rico, Misiones.[1]The
cache was near Puerto Natural Luján, at kilometre 1,754 of the Paraná River,
about 140 kilometres from Posadas.[1]Investigators said the cargo was being
held (“enfriando,” or temporarily stored) until distribution handlers came to
collect it.[1]The investigation identified the area where the marijuana was
being held.[1]
Search teams found 11,954 “ladrillos,” or pressed bricks, concealed in dense
vegetation.[1]Ground patrols entered the woodland, while the river security
deployment was supported by border-guard vessel GC-197 “Timbú.”[1]El Litoral
likewise described Prefectura’s operation as involving searches by land and
water.[2]
The Prefectura’s public statement put the cargo’s commercial value above
500,900,000 pesos.[1]Security Minister Patricia Bullrich and Prefectura chief
Eduardo Scarzello supervised the operation.[1]The case was handled by the
Federal Prosecutor’s Office in Oberá, whose secretary general, Arlindo Otto
Kurtz, was named in the statement.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Cannabis
8.11 t
Value (official estimate)
ARS 500,900,000
Agency type
Coast guard, Prosecutor
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis
Setting
Forest or wild land
Case stage
Under investigation
Sources
Argentina.gob.arargentina.gob.arESPrefectura secuestró más de 8.000 kilos de marihuana con un valor comercial que supera los 500.900.000 pesos
The seizure date is not stated separately; 21 November 2019 is the submitted source’s publication date and is used as incident_date.
Neither account identifies a suspect or reports an arrest.
The stated value is the Prefectura’s lower-bound commercial estimate, not a final accounting.
The agency separately reported a weekly total of 31,117,635 doses across two cargoes but did not clarify how that aggregate relates to this cache; it is excluded.
El Litoral also describes separate seizures near Puerto Libertad and Gobernador Roca; those incidents are not included here.
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.
