They left in a prison a cargo of cocaine hidden in a crate with tomatoes

In a routine check, the Penitentiary Service of Buenos Aires (SPB) thwarted the entry of eight kilos of cocaine into the prison


Florencio Varela
. The drug was left in a warehouse by a supplier company and was hidden in a crate with tomatoes.

THE NACION sources of the SPB and the Ministry of Security of Buenos Aires. Once discovered the eight kilos of cocaine, the prison authorities filed a criminal complaint and gave an intervention to the police of Buenos Aires who collaborated in the inspection of the facilities.

The sources of the case explain that the Directorate of Internal Affairs of the SPB investigates whether there is collusion. between the people who left the drugs in the warehouse and the prison staff who works in the unit Carcelaria 24 of Florencio Varela, where there are 1344 prisoners. "The vegetable was taken to the penitentiary by a supplier company, whose staff left 38 boxes of tomatoes in one of the warehouses of the warehouse, where food is prepared from the prisoners," he said. explained the spokesman. produced in a routine check yesterday at noon, when the prison staff who walked into the warehouse was struck by what he saw in a drawer: the eight packages were visible in one of the boxes of tomatoes and inspect the content was detected cocaine

"Immediately a joint work with the porteño police began to investigate and seize the property with dogs, under the supervision of Attorney General Christian Granados", has informed the spokespersons consulted.

• 8 Kilos of cocaine: The staff of the Penitentiary Service of Buenos Aires frustrated the entry of drugs into the prison of Florencio Varela