Officers of the Comisaría Agente Daniel Juárez in Riacho He Hé, Formosa province, detained three people and seized marijuana, cocaine, precision scales, mobile phones and other items of interest.[1] The case began days earlier when police learned of a couple who had reportedly come from the city of Formosa to sell marijuana and cocaine in small doses.[1] Officers of the unit’s investigative brigade went to a call about a disturbance and arrested one man there.[1] At the scene they identified the couple under investigation among the other people present.[1]

A search of the belongings of a woman aged 23 and a man aged 25 found marijuana divided into small bags, a hand-rolled cigarette, cocaine, a precision scale, four mobile phones and items used to divide the substances.[1] Orientation tests by specialists from the Delegación Drogas Peligrosas Laguna Blanca were positive for marijuana and cocaine.[1] Officers of the Delegación de Policía Científica documented the scene, and the investigation continued with a court-ordered search of the property where the couple was staying, where more drugs and a second precision scale were seized.[1]

The three people remained detained in the judicial case, and the couple was charged under National Law No. 23.737, Argentina’s narcotics statute.[1] Separate cases are under way over theft, threats and injuries caused with a bladed weapon.[1] Diario Exprés carried the same police account under the headline Narcomenudeo: detenidos y drogas secuestradas tras un operativo.[2]