Two held with 5.2 kg of cannabis in motorcycle bags at Salvador Mazza
Gendarmes on a foot patrol along the Algarrobal road in Salvador Mazza, Salta, stopped a motorcycle carrying two men and found 5 kg 215 g of cannabis in five packages inside their backpacks. The federal prosecutor's office in Tartagal ordered both men detained and the drug, the motorcycle and a phone seized.
🇦🇷 Algarrobal road, Salvador Mazza, General San Martín department, Salta · Argentina
Officers of the Gendarmería Nacional’s Squadron 61 “Salvador Mazza” were
patrolling on foot along a road called Algarrobal, in the town of Salvador
Mazza, in the northern Argentine province of Salta, when they stopped a Honda
Tornado motorcycle carrying two adult men.[1]The patrol was part of Operación
Plan Güemes, the force’s deployment on the Salta border with Bolivia.[1]
Opening the two backpacks the men were carrying, the gendarmes found five
irregular ochre-coloured packages holding a compact greenish-brown substance.[1]Field tests with the force’s Narcotest kit were positive for cannabis
sativa, with a total weight of 5 kilograms215 grams.[1]
The Federal Prosecution Office of Tartagal directed the detention of the two men
and the seizure of the drug, the motorcycle, a telephone and other items of
interest to the case.[1]
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Source: Argentina.gob.ar (Gendarmería Nacional)Packages of cannabis seized at Salvador Mazza, photographed next to a ruler with the weight marked. Photo: Gendarmería Nacional ArgentinaPhoto details
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