They tried to evade a checkpoint on the route in the province of Misiones, and were detained by National Gendarmerie with 107 kilos of marijuana. One of them already had a history of smuggling and resistance to authority.
As a result of an investigation and with the information collected, the national force dependent on the Ministry of Security expected a criminal operation to be carried out in the missionary city of San Vicente. For this reason, they articulated a procedure in the area, which included coordinated vehicle controls on the route of National Route No. 14 and they waited.
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It was in the early morning hours, at kilometer 992, when members of the patrol of Squadron 49 “San Vicente” observed suspicious movements of a vehicle with two men inside, so they stopped.
At the time of document control, the gendarmes noticed that the companion was operating a Handy-type high-frequency communication device. Simultaneously, another car that was approaching from a distance, performed a dangerous maneuver, making a sudden “U” turn, fleeing in the opposite direction.
Immediately, the uniformed officers began following the vehicle that was trying to escape along the road corridor, and later returned to a secondary road with no exit. It was there that the car got stuck in a rocky area, so the occupants began to flee on foot towards a neighboring mountainous area, being pursued by the troops.
As a result of the raking tasks carried out in the area and the search of the abandoned vehicle, the federal force found 114 rectangular packages containing a compact plant substance, which when subjected to Narcotest tests, confirmed that they were ” cannabis sativa”, weighing 107 kilos 810 grams.
Finally, the Federal Court and the Federal Prosecutor’s Office of Oberá ordered the seizure of the narcotic, both vehicles and different pieces of evidence for the case. In addition, the two adult men who acted as “leaders” of the frustrated plan were detained as communiqués. It was later determined that one of them already had a record for “Concealment of Contraband” and “Resistance to Authority.”
