That drugs are sold in Constitución is something already known.
Six months ago Clarín told in great detail what is happening in the area of Santiago del Estero and Juan de Garay, where the "zombies" parade for the "cheapest" cocaine in the City.
Prostitutes who are actually dealers, stolen houses, robberies, vandalism and businesses that buy stolen metal.
That is the panorama that characterizes the area and for which the neighbors demand more security and order.
After twelve almost simultaneous raids in three homes in Constitución, the City Police arrested six people of Dominican nationality this Wednesday afternoon
for selling drugs
.
The operation, in which a special strategy called "Trojan Horse" was used, was the result of more than four months of joint investigation between the Buenos Aires police and the UFEIDE, a prosecutor's office specialized in drug trafficking crimes.
A
building taken in Santiago del Estero at 1400, another in San Juan at 1200 and a hotel accommodation in Sáenz Peña at 1700
made up the triangle in which a group of Dominican citizens ran a drug-selling “enterprise.”
As a result of the raids, a 62-year-old woman (considered the leader of the gang)
and five men aged 28, 26, 22, 21 and 20 were arrested
, who shared the roles of distributor, “mules” and “ “little soldiers.”
The Southern Anti-Drug Investigations Division of the Buenos Aires police was already aware of the operations of this gang since the end of September.
A source in the investigation explained to
Clarín
that it was an investigation that began at the end of last September.
At that time, he maintains, there were already several signs of drug sales in the places now raided.
This investigation division already had, for a few months, collected evidence: filming material, both from security cameras and what police were able to obtain on the ground;
or thanks to the
arrest of buyers
, who were providing a map of affiliation of the members of this gang.
For this reason, the intervention of the UFEIDE, the anti-drug trafficking prosecutor's office of the Buenos Aires Public Prosecutor's Office, was required.
The drug triangle and the "Trojan Horse" strategy
First, a hotel accommodation in Sáenz Peña at 1700, where the drugs were, apparently, “downloaded” (that is, where the supplier left the drugs).
At a midpoint, in Santiago del Estero at 1400, a taken over condominium where several families live, to which the gang took the drugs undivided but only to mislead the police.
This building was raided three times in 2023, all for the same reason: drug sales.
The six Dominicans arrested by the police for drug sales.
Then, this gang moved the drugs to
another building taken over
in San Juan at 1200, where it was broken up and sold;
Part of its subdivision returned to Santiago del Estero in 1400 to be sold.
The raid, jointly between the Southern Anti-Drug Command and the 1C Police Station of Constitución, was carried out under the modality known in the jargon as a
“Trojan horse
. ”
More than fifty police officers moved within a bus line to a nearby terminal, with the aim of not using patrol cars and, thus, alerting the "tranzas."
Diego Kravetz, Minister of City Security, joined the operation before it began and the troops dispersed to the three homes.
Cocaine, marijuana and money among what the Police seized in one of the raids.
This source of the investigation adds to
Clarín
that more and more they must adopt this type of covert raids, since the gangs they investigate constantly change their modus operandi.
The Minister of Security, Waldo Wolff, for his part, assured that these procedures are part of a preventive design that “we are promoting from the portfolio that focuses on reinforcing strategic points of the City that allows us to dismantle these types of gangs that sell drugs. ”.
The result of this Wednesday's raid was the following:
one and a half kilos of marijuana and 177 grams of cocaine, between packages and fractions;
1.4 grams of MDMA crystal
;
1.2 million pesos in cash, 100 dollars and 50 Dominican pesos;
17 cell phones, as many precision scales, cutting elements and several bags to package the drugs.
The seizures of the City Police after the raids on the Dominican gang.
“Another step in our commitment to order the City and give peace of mind to the neighbors,” Diego Kravetz tweeted after the operation.
Jorge Macri, head of the Buenos Aires government, did his thing: “Once again, foreign criminals choose our City to break the law.
"We are not going to allow ourselves to be the place where crimes come to be committed and we will work to expel anyone who commits a crime and does not have citizenship."
As for those detained,
four remain in preventive detention, as they will face sentences greater than three years
.
The other two people may receive sentences of less than three years, either because they have a secondary role in the organization, or because the prosecutor's office could consider that they are “fungible sellers”, that is, people who sold because they had no other choice. option to maintain.
The hearing that the prosecution requested to confirm the preventive detentions and begin the trials is scheduled for this Friday.
MG