Argentina’s federal police detained three people suspected of selling drugs in two separate operations, one in Rosario and one in Buenos Aires province.[1] In Rosario, Santa Fe, officers of the federal force’s special investigations operational unit detained a man who delivered narcotics in small amounts by car.[1] He sold drugs in the Villa Banana, Triángulo Moderno and Bella Vista neighbourhoods.[1] The officers followed him to a cocaine delivery to a client and detained him, seizing the drug and the vehicle.[1] The prosecutor Noelia Navone backed the investigation and Judge Rodrigo Santana of the first-instance criminal court ordered a search of the man’s home.[1] At the house officers found portioned marijuana buds ready for sale, 39 cannabis sativa seeds and 30 rounds of .32 ammunition, besides high-purity cocaine, a tablet, a phone and 500,000 pesos.[1] The man, 33 and Argentine, was left at the disposal of the judge for an offence under Argentina’s drug law.[1] Crónica reported the same Rosario arrest, stating that the police operation took place in the city of Rosario, Santa Fe.[2] Conclusión likewise reported the detention of a 33-year-old man by federal police personnel during a surveillance operation.[3]

In the second operation, officers of the Metropolitan South operations division of the federal force’s dangerous-drugs superintendency broke up two retail drug points in Buenos Aires province.[1] The Florencio Varela decentralised drug prosecutor’s office under Giovanni Maggio established that two units of a local housing complex were storing and distributing marijuana and cocaine.[1] El Sindical reported that the inquiry began in November 2024 from an anonymous complaint telephoned to the 911 emergency line.[4] That complaint accused a woman and her daughter of selling narcotics in the “Pepsi” neighbourhood of Bosques, in the municipality of Florencio Varela.[4] Guarantee Court No 5 of Florencio Varela, under Judge Juan Busteros, ordered searches of the homes, and officers detained two Argentine adult women.[1] The searches found more than half a kilo of marijuana in compact brick form, 21 cannabis sativa plants, cocaine doses, a .22 revolver with ammunition, 98,650 pesos in low-denomination notes, four precision scales and phones.[1] Both women were left with the seized items at the disposal of the intervening judge for an offence under the drug law.[1]

The ministry reported the two procedures on 15 February 2025, and Crónica carried the Rosario case the next day.[1]