They seize the biggest shipment of marijuana in Paraguay

The Paraguayan Public Prosecutor’s Office, in collaboration with agents of the National Anti-Drugs Secretariat (SENAD) and members of the Joint Task Force (FTC), raided a property in Paso Barreto, Concepción department, seizing 35,754.2 kilograms of marijuana, packaged in 1,078 bags, which were loaded onto trucks for transfer.

The operation began last Friday, when FTC commandos conducted a helicopter flight over the aforementioned area, as part of a routine reconnaissance patrol, using which allowed them to see the activity of a group of people loading bags into large trucks in a rural establishment, in semi-wooded territory.

In view of this, there was a decrease in the place of the troops, but the people who were on the property managed to escape, entering the mountain. Meanwhile, primary analysis of the cargo revealed that it was pressed and bagged marijuana, which was housed in the transfer vehicles, according to Paraguayan media. Digital DNA.

The discovery was reported to prosecutor Arnaldo Argüello, of the Special Unit for Combating Drug Trafficking, Concepción region, and he determined that the trucks, along with the cargo, had been taken to the headquarters of the Defense Operations Command. internal (CODI). in Arroyito.

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There, finally, it was verified that these were the 1,078 bags mentioned, totaling 35,754.2 kilograms of marijuana, the largest volume of drugs seized in this country to date. The previous one was 26 tons of narcotic, in 2014, at Captain Bado.

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