08/29/2021 2:37 PM
Clarín.com
Police
Updated 08/29/2021 2:55 PM
The truck, driven by a Brazilian driver with an arrest warrant, was traveling along National Route 14, in the province of Entre Ríos, when the Police stopped it, which already had knowledge of its cargo: when they searched it, they found 2,071 kilograms of marijuana distributed in 2,803 "bricks", which had a special adhesive with the figure of a gorilla.
The procedure, which was officially reported as the result of "an investigation of several months", was carried out by the City Police, under the orders of the federal judge of Campana, Adrián González Charvay.
According to the sources, they had the information that a truck could arrive from the northeast of Argentina with narcotics and that it would have as a driver a 52-year-old man with an arrest warrant in Brazil for escaping from a prison in his country.
The Scania with marijuana.
Faced with this situation, agents from the Brigades of the Department to Fight Organized Crime began with the tasks on the Coast to be able to intercept the vehicle and arrest the fugitive.
Thus, the police officers located the Scania-brand truck that was traveling along Route 14, in Entre Ríos, and headed for the City of Buenos Aires.
They intercepted him at a service station at kilometer 27 of the highway, near Gualeguaychú, where the driver
tried to escape but was arrested
.
The Brazilian trucker, arrested.
Now they are investigating the origin of the marijuana and are trying to determine if this gorilla figure had already been used by the same gang.
However, the sources consulted by
Clarín
said that this logo was not seen in other seized shipments.
In addition, they indicated that everything began with an anonymous call, at the beginning of July, which anticipated that a truck parked in a place in Paso de los Libres (Corrientes) was going to cross the Zárate bridge with a large amount of drugs, which it was finally realized in the last hours
They kidnap more than two tons of marijuana with the figure of a gorilla.
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