The pilot of the small plane with cocaine was arrested in Pueblo Andino: he was rescued by firefighters in the Carcarañá River

This Thursday at noon, the pilot of the Cessna 206 light aircraft not authorized in Argentine airspace, which landed in Luis Palacios this Wednesday, was arrested in Pueblo Andino. with about 480 kilos of cocaine. According to what was reported in From 12 to 14 (The Three), andThe pilot was rescued by firefighters in the place where he had hidden. According to the first information that emerged, he had asked for help from some street vendors on the route.

Sources from the provincial Ministry of Security reported that a telephone call to the 13th police station in the town of Pueblo Andino, of Regional Unit

Upon arrival at the place, heThe Santa Fe Police officers confirmed that it was a person of Bolivian nationality, wanted as one of the crew of the plane. with a shipment of narcotic material that landed last night in the rural area of ​​Aldao, in the San Lorenzo department.

The pilot stopped

Images of the pilot’s rescue.

The whereabouts of the driver of the small plane was unknown until now. At the moment the aircraft was intercepted, the man landed but He managed to escape in a truck.

The Government referred today to the kidnapping of the Cessna 206 that was transporting a shipment of 475 kilograms of cocaine – that is the figure they indicated and not 480 as was initially revealed – and could have been seized by the Armed Forces 20 kilometers from the city. from Rosario. Luis Petri, Minister of Defense, specified that it was a complex operation in which the Argentine Air Force, the Joint Aerospace Command and the National Gendarmerie participated, starting “from the detection by the recently inaugurated Tostado radar of a small plane. that had entered Argentine airspace via Bolivia, bordering Paraguay, irregularly, without a flight plan or identification.”

After an unprecedented two-hour chase by two Tucanos planes, The aircraft of Bolivian origin was intercepted. “This has no precedent in the Argentine Republic, we believe that the change of course that occurred on December 10 with very clear and very precise instructions from the President of the Nation, Javier Milei, to wage a fight without barracks against drug trafficking, which is giving results in Rosario and throughout the country,” said Petri.

Minister Bullrich, for her part, highlighted that “the quick reaction of the Air Force, taking out a Tucano plane, and the quick arrival of the Gendarmerie allowed us to have the most successful operation in Argentine history,” and announced that “now we are going to the drug trafficking gang, which for us in the Rosario area, as you all know, is fundamental.”

In relation to Rosario, Bullrich assured that that city “Today it is working, the weekend had 80 percent hotel occupancy and 90 percent occupancy of restaurants. It means that Rosario is a city that we have to take care of because today it is in full activity.”

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