The Policía de Investigaciones (PDI), Santa Fe’s investigations police, destroyed drugs seized in separate investigations in the city of San Justo on Tuesday 10 November 2026.[1] The procedure took place at the municipal waste-treatment plant, on orders from the Ministerio Público de la Acusación, the provincial public prosecution service.[1] Fiscal Unit No. 154 of San Justo, led by prosecutor Daniela Soledad Montegrosso, supervised it.[1]

The destroyed material came from 27 seizure records linked to different cases under National Law No. 23.737, Argentina’s narcotics statute.[1] What was burned included cocaine, cannabis sativa, cannabis plants, and materials used to divide and package drugs.[1] Before the destruction, officers checked the material and ran new preliminary identification tests, known as PIPH, to verify the substances.[1] Two qualified witnesses attended, and officers of the PDI forensic science division photographed the procedure.[1]

Volunteer firefighters from San Justo started and controlled the fire at the municipal site.[1] Mayor Nicolás Cuesta, government secretary Diego Palmier and local media representatives watched.[1] The PDI said the burn fulfilled prosecution orders on the final disposal of drugs that had remained in police custody.[2]