Three held with 15.559 kg of marijuana near Laguna Totora, San Cosme
Corrientes provincial police and Gendarmería Nacional detained three men and seized 15.559 kilograms of marijuana near Laguna Totora in San Cosme after a car fled a Route 12 checkpoint and was caught in a closing operation. A field test was positive for marijuana and the three men, the car and the drug were placed at the disposal of the federal courts.
🇦🇷 Near Laguna Totora, San Cosme, Corrientes · Argentina
Arrested
3
Cannabis
15.559 kg
Officers of the Corrientes provincial police and the Gendarmería Nacional,
Argentina’s military-status border police, stopped a car carrying marijuana near
Laguna Totora in San Cosme, Corrientes, and detained the three men inside.[1]The operation began when Gendarmes tried to identify the occupants of the car at
a roadside check at kilometre 1,065 of National Route 12, and the men refused
and fled.[1]Police from San Cosme and Paso de la Patria joined a closing
operation, combing side roads and thick scrubland before finding the car and its
driver near the lagoon and catching the other two on foot.[1]
At the base of the San Cosme section of Gendarmería’s Escuadrón 48, a field test
came back positive for marijuana and the load weighed 15.559 kilograms.[1]El
Litoral headlined the haul as 25 kilos, while its text and the other accounts
give 15.559 kilograms.[1]
The three men were placed at the disposal of the federal court, which must
establish where the load came from and where it was going, and the car was
seized with it.[2]Police said the load apparently came from Itatí, in
Corrientes province, and that the action fell under Plan Paraná, a programme to
strengthen security and fight complex crime on riverside areas and key roads.[3]Police said the action fell under Plan Paraná, a programme to strengthen
security and fight complex crime on the region’s riverside areas and key roads.[4]
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El Monterizoelmonterizo.comESControl en la Ruta 12: la fuga terminó con tres detenidos y un hallazgo inesperado
Open questions the AI reported
No hour is given for the operation; 9 October 2026 is the date of publication in El Litoral and Diario El Libertador and stands in for the incident date.
El Litoral's headline says 25 kilos while its text and every other account give 15.559 kilograms; the report uses the text's weighed figure.
The material was identified by an orientation field test positive for marijuana, with no laboratory analysis reported.
The accounts say the load apparently came from Itatí; its origin and destination are left to the federal investigation.
The suspects are not named or described beyond being men, and no charges, plea or court outcome were reported.
All the accessible accounts reproduce the same police account and are not independent reporting.
El Monterizo describes the operation as having taken place 'este lunes' (this Monday), which does not match the 9 October 2026 Friday publication date of the other outlets.
No value estimate for the load was published.
The El Litoral photos are captioned only with the story headline, so it is not stated exactly what they show.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Corrientes en el Aire: Gendarmes intercepted the car's driver while provincial police caught the other two occupants, and the three men were handed to the Federal Court No. 1 of Corrientes.
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.
