24 kg of marijuana found in an abandoned car in San Luis del Palmar
Police in San Luis del Palmar, Corrientes, found 24 packages holding 24.155 kilograms of marijuana in an abandoned Fiat Palio whose occupants ran off on the night of 2 May 2026. Officers seized the drug and the car, no one was arrested, and the file went to the prosecutor's office on duty.
🇦🇷 Calle Misiones, San Luis del Palmar, Corrientes · Argentina
Cannabis
24.155 kg
Agencies
Policía de Corrientes, Dirección General de Drogas Peligrosas y Crimen Organizado +1
Officers of the Policía de Corrientes saw a Fiat Palio in San Luis del Palmar on
the night of 2 May 2026, and its occupants got out and ran off when they noticed
the police, leaving the car abandoned in Calle Misiones.[1]The case was left
with the Unidad Fiscal de Investigación en turno, the prosecutor’s office on
duty, under Corrientes provincial police jurisdiction.[2]A search of the area
found none of them, and no one was arrested.[2]
Inside the car, officers found 24 rectangular packages wrapped in polythene
holding compacted plant material.[1]The Dirección General de Drogas
Peligrosas y Crimen Organizado, the provincial dangerous-drugs and
organised-crime directorate, tested the material and it was positive for
marijuana of maximum purity.[1]The load weighed 24.155 kilograms, and police
seized it together with the Fiat Palio used to carry it.[1]La Prensa
Corrientes described the packages as flat slabs of compacted marijuana.[3]
The file is at the San Luis del Palmar district police station with the Unidad
Fiscal de Investigación en turno, the prosecutor’s office on duty, and officers
were still working to identify those responsible.[1]Corrientes al Día
reported that investigators were also trying to establish where the load came
from and where it was going.[2]Corrientes al Día places the seizure in San
Luis del Palmar, a town in Corrientes province.[2]
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No one was arrested: the car's occupants fled on foot and the reports say they remained at large.
No charge, court order or outcome was reported for anyone in the case.
No street value for the 24.155 kilograms was published.
The opened accounts reproduce the same Corrientes provincial police statement, so they are not independent reporting.
The purity description ('marihuana de máxima pureza') comes from a field test by the drugs directorate, with no laboratory confirmation reported.
A Noticias del Paraná reprint repeats the El Litoral text almost word for word and adds no independent information.
Social media posts say the load was later burned and that the car had been rented for use as a ride-hailing vehicle, but those pages could not be opened, so neither detail is included.
Diario Época, Corrientes Hoy and Radio Dos carried the story but refused access, so their accounts could not be checked.
Neither the El Litoral photo nor the Corrientes al Día photo carries a caption or credit confirming what it depicts, so the media entries rest on the headlines and file names.
The town-centre coordinates are used for San Luis del Palmar; the reports do not say where in Calle Misiones the car was abandoned.
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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.
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