The Santiago del Estero police arrested four people from Salta who had gone to that province to supply cocaine to various dealers who distribute it at retail.
This is a young couple from Salta who were with their 3-year-old son, who, when searched, had a backpack with 2.5 kg of cocaine and an application to locate a dealer in a rural town in the province. neighboring province.
The important police investigation work allowed on Friday to disrupt a drug trafficking operation in the town of San Ramón, in the Pellegrini department, where the kidnapping of 2,459 kilograms of cocaine was achieved and the capture of a gang of Salteños who were apparently in charge of distribute the drugs on Santiago soil.
The substance was found in a field located on the side of Route 176, in a backpack, after personnel from the General Directorate of Dangerous Drugs intercepted a Renault Clio car in which a couple and their 3-year-old daughter were traveling. all domiciled in the province of Salta. The adults were identified as Jorge Agustín Guevara and Lorena Ester Campos.
The location of the drugs was possible by verifying that the Google Maps application was open on the woman’s mobile phone with a marked point where these people were going, in the town of San Ramón, located a few kilometers from the place where they were intercepted.
Based on the evidence, police personnel searched the area, where a military-type backpack was found in a pasture in front of a farm, on the side of Route 176.
In parallel, two other Salteños identified as Ismael Enrique Arrieta Quiroga and Agustín Arnaldo Pereyra were arrested in the El Sauce area, whose presence had been noted as suspicious by investigators when they were in the city of Nueva Esperanza, after maintaining contact with other subjects. who had stayed in a hotel, which they said were from the Santiago town of El Mojón.
The investigators’ presumptions bore fruit when they were able to check Agustín Pereyra’s mobile phone, in which a WhatsApp message was found in which he informed his partner that he had already delivered the package that had been ordered to him, in clear allusion to the detected substance.
