Senad seizes 336 kg of pressed marijuana in five Central Paraguay raids
Paraguay’s Senad anti-drug secretariat raided properties in Lambaré, Villa Elisa, San Lorenzo and Capiatá on 9 August 2005, detaining ten people and seizing 336 kilograms of pressed marijuana in what ABC Color described as the break-up of an international trafficking network.
🇵🇾 Lambaré, Villa Elisa, San Lorenzo and Capiatá, Central Paraguay
Senad, Paraguay’s national anti-drug secretariat, broke up what ABC Color called an international
marijuana trafficking network in five raids across Central Paraguay.[1]The newspaper said ten
people were detained, including two retired police officers, while an active-duty officer remained
at large, and that agents seized336 kilograms of pressed marijuana and 94 boxes of allegedly
counterfeit cigarettes.[1]
Raids around Asunción
According to ABC Color’s 11 August report, the operations ran the day before publication in the
central zone.[1]A U.S. embassy narcotics summary written on 13 August said Senad seized 336
kilograms of marijuana on 9 August during raids on properties in Lambaré, Villa Elisa, San Lorenzo
and Capiatá, and that fourteen suspects including retired officer Zunilda Roig were later
imprisoned as part of the same organisation.[2]The embassy text treats the group as an
international trafficking network but names no further destinations or sentences in the opened
extract.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
ABC Color reported the break-up on 11 August and said the raids happened “yesterday”, while a U.S. embassy cable dated 13 August puts the seizures on 9 August; the reports agree on the weight but not on the headline arrest count (ten in ABC, fourteen imprisoned in the cable summary).
The opened ABC story does not name the detained suspects or list which towns each raid hit.
Ninety-four boxes of allegedly counterfeit cigarettes were seized alongside the marijuana; ABC gives no follow-up charges on that material.
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