Cordoba drug cartel falls: they kidnap 70 kilograms of cocaine, cars and money worth $1.7 billion

The Anti-Narcotics Police Force (FPA) carried out 14 raids in various neighborhoods of the city of Córdoba, the commune of San Roque and the commune of San Roque, dismantling a drug trafficking ring and seizing 70 kilograms of cocaine, marijuana, US$21 million, $153,000 and vehicle. Reported to the prosecutor’s office (MPF).

Raids, cocaine and millions of pesos in Cordoba

After a six-month investigation, police carried out operations in the capital’s Centro, Villa Martínez, Argüello and Ameghino Sud neighbourhoods, as well as in San Roque and Malvinas Argentinas, a factory belonging to one of the suspects.

Drugs seized in raid. (Mpfcordoba.gob.ar)

The main investigator is Bolivian and the organization is composed of Peruvians and Argentines (1 female and 7 males in total).

It turned out that they had divided and stored the drugs in several houses and then distributed them to various neighborhoods in the city of Córdoba. Investigators also seized Teflon-jacketed cartridges used to puncture bulletproof vests.

Drugs seized in raid. (Mpfcordoba.gob.ar)

Seized were 491,564 doses of cocaine (more than 70 kilograms) and 45 doses of marijuana, marijuana plants worth $21,027,170 and $153,731, three cars, a motorcycle, a firearm and different items related to the case. All items seized were worth more than $1.7 billion.

Drugs seized in raid. (Mpfcordoba.gob.ar)

The Office of the Third-Shift Anti-Drug Trafficking Prosecutor ordered the surrender of seized items and referred those arrested for serious drug trafficking offenses to court.

Drugs seized in raid. (Mpfcordoba.gob.ar)