05/07/2021 11:51 PM
Clarín.com
Police
Updated 05/07/2021 23:51
The son of the late repressor Luciano Benjamín Menéndez was arrested today during a raid carried out in the Alberdi neighborhood of the city of Córdoba, within the framework of a
drug trade case
.
Juan Martín del Milagro Menéndez
, 46, the youngest son of the late former general Luciano Benjamín Menéndez, was arrested as a
“drug
dealer
”
and charged with “aggravated commercialization of narcotics”.
The arrest took place in a house on 1200 Dean Funes Street, in the Alberdi neighborhood, where personnel from the Córdoba Anti-Drug Trafficking Police Force seized a
significant amount of marijuana
and cash that, it is presumed, would be the product of the sale of the drug. drug.
Judicial sources cited by the
Télam
agency
reported that Menéndez is the son of the former head of the Third Army Corps, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 12 political trials for
crimes against humanity
and died in the Military hospital of Córdoba on February 27, 2018 .
According to the information provided by the Public Prosecutor's Office, the operations were requested by the prosecutor for the Fight against Drug Trafficking, Sebastián Romero, and were carried out by personnel from the Company of Special Interventions (CIE) and the provincial Police.
After being arrested, Menéndez was housed in a local judicial unit until he is investigated.
Sources from the newspaper
La Voz del Interior
revealed that Menéndez "was caught while
dividing the narcotics
."
2,000 doses were also seized - presumably from a marijuana bite - in a procedure that was carried out "after several months of investigations and calls to the Anonymous Complaint Center" of the force.
Official data specify that in the intervened home, with the help of a trained dog, compacted marijuana was found inside a refrigerator, money, a digital scale, various narcotic substances and other elements related to drug dealing.
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