Police from the northern region of the National Police investigations directorate carried out three searches at the same time in barrio Lavalleja, Rivera, and detained six people, two of them under 18.[1] Diario Norte reported the same three simultaneous raids in barrio Lavalleja, with the same six detainees, among them two minors.[2]

Officers seized 237 packets of a “yellowish substance”, 120 packets of pasta base, a nylon bag of the yellowish substance, 4,820 Uruguayan pesos, 4,434 Brazilian reais, a precision scale and two mobile phones.[1] Diario Norte listed the same 237 and 120 packets, the nylon bag, 4,820 pesos, 4,434 reais, the scale and the two phones.[2] The Interior Ministry published the seized drugs under captions reading “Marihuana y cocaína” and “Pasta base y marihuana incautada”, without giving any weight.[1] The Rivera police’s scientific police unit processed the scene.[1]

A 23-year-old woman was convicted as the person responsible for supplying prohibited narcotics and given two years in prison.[1] A 39-year-old man was convicted on the same supply charge and given two years and two months in prison.[1] A 20-year-old Brazilian citizen was convicted of assisting the agents of the criminal activity and given two years in prison.[1] Two adolescents were held responsible for a serious breach of the criminal law classed as supply of prohibited narcotics and ordered into closed socio-educational detention at INISA, Uruguay’s adolescent social-inclusion institute, for 16 months.[1]

Diario Norte, the Rivera daily, reported the raids before the convictions were announced, saying the six detainees had been placed at the disposal of the courts.[2]