Unusual: they had a marijuana greenhouse in front of the courthouse

Staff
anti-drug of the
City Police Yesterday, he raided a building in Uruguay at 600, in central Buenos Aires. A neighbor had denounced that in one of the upper floors, there was very strong lights for 24 hours. By order of the Criminal Court of offense and fault No. 29 of María Martinez, members of the division
Chemical precursors the city police proceeded to a procedure and found at this location a greenhouse with six plants of
marijuana and a kilo of this medicine dispensed in bottles.

Although other marijuana greenhouses have been discovered, the location of this illegal enterprise is unusual: marijuana was grown in front of
Courthouse, not only seat of several national courts, but of the Supreme Court itself, the highest court that was resolved ten years ago in the appeal
Arriola deeming unconstitutional to punish the possession of drugs for personal use. Entering two digital scales and a large amount of
cannabis seeds They led the investigators to think that it would not act from a personal culture intended for personal consumption, but from a production aimed at selling this substance to the market of illegal retail.

When performing research tasks, the existence of the marijuana nursery on the 12th floor of this building was verified and the occupants of the said property were identified. On the basis of the evidence gathered, the judge issued the search warrants, which also contained nylon bags and a film of paper used to split the medication, two bags with baking soda, three cell phones, a notebook containing notes, lamps, ballasts and timers. culture

A 33-year-old woman and a 26-year-old man were arrested.

The municipal police started this year to focus on the groups of drug traffickers, the transfer of functions to the justice of Buenos Aires, which since last January was responsible for the prosecution of crimes related to the retail sale of drugs and to the simple possession of these drugs. Illegal psychoactive substances. The agents in Buenos Aires were also able to dismantle a criminal organization that provided drugstore positions both in the city and in the suburbs. Thus, in Buenos Aires, a record of seizures was recorded, with 12 tons of marijuana, 27 kilos of cocaine and thousands of doses of LSD and ecstasy in the first half of the year. Some of this medicine has been cremated in recent days. "We burn all the drugs we seized during this first half, which is a record," said Diego Santilli.

Marcelo D'Alessandro pointed out that "there are thousands of doses that do not reach our youth and that it was very important to change the law on
Narcomebado because today, the municipal police go directly to the drug sales bunkers. And we clean the neighborhoods of what is the scourge of drugs, "

For his part, the head of the municipal police, Gabriel Berard, added that "with the new law Narcomebado, municipal justice allows us to work much more quickly.The police staff is closer to the neighbor and the complaints are they are resolving faster than before ", said:" The process begins with a complaint, continues with the investigation tasks conducted by the police of the city itself and ends with the search, burning and destruction of drugs. "

One of these complaints resulted in a raid that verified the existence of a clandestine marijuana nursery within 50 meters of the larger judicial offices.