300 kg marijuana seized from Paraguayan truck at Salto bridge; 2 held
Argentine customs officers stopped a Paraguayan truck on the Salto Grande bridge and seized 300 kilograms of marijuana hidden in its cargo. The two occupants were detained and placed at the disposal of the Argentine court in Concepción del Uruguay.
🇦🇷 Salto Grande border crossing, Concordia, Entre Ríos · Argentina
A Paraguayan-registered truck trying to enter Uruguay over the Salto Grande
bridge was stopped at the border crossing on the afternoon of Friday 18 January
2013.[1]Argentine customs officers found 300 kilograms of marijuana hidden
among the truck’s cargo.[1]
The two people travelling in the vehicle were detained and held incommunicado.[1]The detainees were to answer before the Argentine court in Concepción del
Uruguay, which handled the procedure.[1]
The report describes Salto as a route used for years by Paraguayan traffickers
to move drugs toward the port of Montevideo and onward to other South American
countries and Europe.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
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.
