Man held in Santa María, Catamarca after 27 cannabis seedlings found in search
Catamarca police searched a house on Calle 2 de Febrero in Santa María city and seized 27 marijuana seedlings, a gram scale and two phones, with the case under the federal court in Catamarca. Officers also reported suspected cocaine and detained a 27-year-old man at the end of the search.
🇦🇷 Calle 2 de Febrero, Santa María, Catamarca · Argentina
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Dirección Drogas Peligrosas de la Policía de Catamarca
Officers of the GAUR-Santa María anti-narcotics group, part of the Catamarca
provincial police’s Dangerous Drugs Directorate, searched a house on Calle 2 de
Febrero in Santa María city.[1][2][3][4][5]The Juzgado Federal N° 1, the federal court in
Catamarca, knew of and took part in the search.[1][2][3][4][5]The search took place on 8
November 2026, the day before the account was published.[1][3]
Officers seized 27 marijuana seedlings of different sizes.[1][2][3][4][5]Police also took
a digital gram scale and two mobile phones, and placed them at the disposal of
the court.[1][2][3][4][5]Officers also found plastic wrappings with a white substance
that a field test indicated was cocaine; the cocaine is not counted in the
cannabis figures.[1][3][4][5]
At the end of the search police detained a 27-year-old man and handed him to the
court handling the case.[1][2][3][4][5]The federal court issued instructions for the case
to continue.[1]Radio TV Valle Viejo reports the same search at Calle 2 de
Febrero S/N° in the city of Santa María, in the department of the same name,
with the same seizures and the same detained 27-year-old.[6]
The police described the operation as part of the provincial force’s prevention
and investigation work against drug trafficking.[1]
The search followed weeks of intelligence work by the federal court.[3]
Photos and video
Two-picture composite published with the report: cannabis seedlings next to a police officer's backpack, and a detained man seen from behind beside an officer of the Catamarca Dangerous Drugs Directorate. Photo: El EsquiúPhoto details
The 27 seedlings are recorded as seized; the accounts do not say whether they were later destroyed or kept as evidence.
Radio TV Valle Viejo publishes the same provincial police account as El Esquiú, so it is not independent reporting of the search.
No weight or street value was published for the cannabis, and the quantity of suspected cocaine was not stated, so no cannabis weight or value is recorded.
No charge, plea or court outcome was reported; the detainee was placed at the disposal of the Juzgado Federal N° 1.
The young man is identified only by his age, and the evidence that the seized plants were marijuana rests on the police account.
Coordinates are for Santa María city centre, not the searched address on Calle 2 de Febrero.
An El Ancasti report on the same seizure could not be opened (the site blocked access), so its details are not used.
This page is the same provincial police statement carried by the other outlets, not independent reporting of the search.
The page picture carries no caption or credit, so it is not added as media.
No charge, plea or court outcome, and no weight or street value for the cannabis, was published in this account.
CatamarcaYa gives no separate date for the search; the page labels the story as published three hours earlier on 9 November 2026, so 8 November remains the incident date from the earlier accounts.
The article states the law cited for the case but gives no weight or street value for the cannabis and no quantity for the cocaine.
The Inforama account gives no separate day for the search; the report keeps 8 November 2026 from the earlier El Esquiú account, and this page was published on 9 November.
The page gives no separate day for the search; its 9 November 2026 publication date is used only for the source, and the report keeps 8 November 2026 from the El Esquiú account.
Entre Ríos police searched a home in Nogoyá on 10 November 2026 and detained one person in a narcomenudeo investigation. Officers seized small quantities of cocaine and marijuana, more than 100,000 pesos, two phones, a digital scale and nylon cuttings.
Police raided two homes in Cipolletti's Barrio 1200 Viviendas on 9 November 2026 after a three-month inquiry into retail drug sales, seizing portioned marijuana and cocaine, scales, cash and a pistol. Six adults were notified that a federal narcotics case had been opened against them under Argentina's drug law, though no arrests were reported.
Corrientes police detained a 21-year-old with an outstanding capture request in a raid on a house on Calle Castillo in Curuzú Cuatiá on 8 November 2026. Officers seized cocaine, marijuana, two firearms, a phone and cash, publishing no weights.
Neuquén police detained two men in four raids in Neuquén city and Centenario, in a case opened over a complaint of damage and injury in the Tranhue neighbourhood. Officers seized 296 grams of cannabis buds and three sacks of drying marijuana plants, along with a homemade firearm and ammunition.
