Gendarmería Nacional officers searched two hectares of cannabis sativa planted in the wooded Paraje Yacutinga in Misiones province and reported destroying the crop.[1] The operation was ordered by the Federal Court of Eldorado after a week of inquiries into suspected offences under Argentina’s drug law, Law 23,737, near the Paraje Dos Hermanas.[1] Officers from the Eldorado unit for complex crimes, the 12 Bernardo de Irigoyen squadron and other Gendarmería units took three hours to reach the site along tracks described as difficult to pass.[1] The warrant covered two hectares in the wooded, hilly Paraje Yacutinga, and the officers travelled three hours along hard-to-pass trails to get there.[1]

The officers surveyed the terrain with a drone and with the help of a narcotics detector dog named Rex.[1] Inside the plantation they found 1,070 marijuana plants between 30 centimetres and 2 metres tall, at flowering stages of four to nine months.[1] The judge handling the case ordered the seizure of the plants and equipment found in the search, and no arrests were reported.[1] InfoChacú, a Chaco news site, republished the Security Ministry account of the operation under the headline that the Gendarmería destroyed the plantation.[2]