Four people were detained by the Buenos Aires City Police on suspicion of being involved in a group that was trying to send cocaine from Argentina to Spain in a beer barrel, police sources announced Monday.
The arrests were the result of an investigation that began in December, after officials from the National Customs Administration detected at the international airport in the city of Ezeiza, in Buenos Aires, a barrel of beer that was intended to be sent as a package to the city. . from Pamplona, in Spain.
“The suspicious package was examined in detail and those responsible were able to verify that the barrel had a double bottom in which a kilo of cocaine was found,” the police in the Argentine capital in charge of the operation detailed in a statement.
The order was dispatched by a woman nicknamed ‘La China’. The detainee’s mother, 81, had already been investigated for selling drugs.
Police investigations indicate that “La China” went to a post office in Buenos Aires to deliver the order with drugs in the company of a man in a car that was not his.
Both the woman and the driver acted, according to the police in the Argentine capital, as “accomplices” of the criminal organization’s drug trafficking.
Raids carried out on March 8 in four houses in Buenos Aires and the municipality of La Matanza culminated in the arrest of three people.
In this process, it is suspected that the supplier of the drug to be sent to Spain, considered the “leader” of the gang, was a 34-year-old from Rosario, arrested on March 29.
Nicknamed ‘Ojito’, he already had a record for drug trafficking, was a fugitive for several years and was arrested in 2016 at the Buenos Aires racetrack, where he was running under a false identity.
Although he was convicted at the time, he managed to lower his sentence later, obtained parole and settled in Buenos Aires.
It was in that city where he was finally arrested again when he appeared at the police station where he went every month to present the documentation regarding his judicial situation.
In eight other raids, all in the capital, the agents seized six cars, electronic devices, machines to manufacture ketamine and approximately 200,000 pesos (about 865 euros).
Source: TSF
