Gendarmería seizes 16.8 kg of marijuana in parcels and a car
Gendarmes at Santo Tomé in Corrientes opened plant parcels held on Ruta Nacional 14 and found 11 kilos 12 grams of cannabis sativa in nine packages and three more hidden in shoe soles. In Chaco, a stop on Ruta Nacional 11 at Lapachito turned up 5 kilos 775 grams in a passenger's bag, and the Federal Court No. 1 of Resistencia ordered the drug seized and the woman held.
🇦🇷 Santo Tomé, Corrientes, and Ruta Nacional 11 at kilometre 1,060, Chaco · Argentina
Gendarmes of Escuadrón 57 “Santo Tomé” opened boxes that had been detected in
checks on Ruta Nacional N° 14, acting on the orders of the Federal Court of Paso
de los Libres and before witnesses.[1]Inside the parcels the gendarmes found
nine packages holding a vegetable substance.[1]They also noticed a strong
smell of marijuana coming from footwear, and found three more packages hidden
inside the soles.[1]A Narcotest field test was positive for “cannabis
sativa”, with a total weight of 11 kilos12 grams.[1]
In Chaco, officers of the Sección Seguridad Vial “Lapachito”, part of Escuadrón
14 “Las Palmas”, stopped a remís, a hired car, on Ruta Nacional N° 11 at
kilometre 1,060 that had come from La Leonesa and was heading for Resistencia.[1]Searching the boot, the officers found a handbag belonging to the female
passenger, hidden among clothes, holding a package with 5 kilos775 grams of
marijuana.[1]The Juzgado Federal N° 1 of Resistencia ordered the drug seized
and the woman involved detained.[1]
The two seizures together came to 16 kilos787 grams of marijuana, matching the
release’s headline figure of 16 kilos.[1]Chaco Ahora republished the
Gendarmería account under the heading that Gendarmería seized drugs in Chaco and
Corrientes in the preceding hours.[2]Chaco Ahora states that the drug in the
Chaco case was being brought by remís from La Leonesa to Resistencia.[2]
Photos and video
Uncaptioned Gendarmería photo placed after the passage on the parcels opened at Santo Tomé. Photo: Gendarmería Nacional Argentina.Photo details
Source: Argentina.gob.ar (Gendarmería Nacional Argentina)Uncaptioned Gendarmería photo placed after the passage on the marijuana found in the passenger's bag. Photo: Gendarmería Nacional Argentina.Photo details
Neither account gives the dates of the two checks; 18 May 2023 is the publication date and stands in for them, and the release says only that they happened in the preceding hours.
The release combines the two separate detections under one headline total of 16 kilos, so the single report keeps them together; each involved a different squad, court and place.
No names, ages or nationalities of the people involved were published; the release does not even state an arrest in the Santo Tomé parcel case, only the parcel opening.
Possession of the parcels is not attributed to any detained person; the release does not say who sent them or whether anyone was held in Corrientes.
The substance was identified by a Narcotest field test positive for cannabis sativa, not a laboratory analysis.
No charges, street value or later court outcome were published for either seizure.
The three photos on the government page carry no captions or credits; their content is described only from their placement in the release.
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