In the next few hours, federal judge Leopoldo Rago Gallo will interrogate a woman who was surprised by Gendarmerie personnel at the San Carlos, Sarmiento checkpoint, when she was trying to cross to Mendoza with 4,157 kilograms of cocaine that she had hidden and distributed on four wireless speakers. which apparently was traveling from Salta. The passenger who was detained in San Juan had the neighboring province of Mendoza as her final destination.
According to reports, the suspect was part of a shopping tour that had left for the province of Mendoza on a bus. In this way, the judge must determine if she was simply a “mule”, that is, a woman who could potentially have been hired by drug traffickers to transport illegal merchandise, or had a more active role in the marketing of cocaine. that he was kidnapped.
It should be noted that the operation that culminated in the arrest of the woman was the result of joint work by the San Juan Core Squad, Squad 64 of Mendoza, the Road Safety section and police from the neighboring province.
The exhaustive review of each package on the bus and the suspicion that there could be a load of narcotics activated the alarms of the gendarmes. The point was corroborated when one of the passengers could not hide her nerves and she ended up giving herself away, according to investigation sources.
Gendarmerie personnel were in charge of the operation. Gentleness.
In this way, to verify the role of the detained woman, the investigators will analyze the cell phone and the previous calls that she could have made prior to her arrest.
Fact
The discovery occurred specifically at kilometer 3,379 of National Route 40, near the San Carlos control, San Juan province. During the inspection of a tourist bus from Orán, Salta, with its final destination in Mendoza, Gendarmerie agents detected inconsistencies in four wireless speakers carried by a passenger. In the presence of witnesses, the sound equipment was dismantled, revealing rectangular packages containing a total of 4,157 kilograms of cocaine.
