Overview
- Gendarmería Nacional tracked a small plane that landed around 3 a.m. near Pergamino and launched a pursuit that led to detentions connected to the operation.
- Bilbao was intercepted in a pickup on the outskirts of Exaltación de la Cruz, and security forces say he was part of a ground team awaiting the shipment rather than a passenger on the aircraft.
- Prosecutors Matías Scilabra and Diego Iglesias of PROCUNAR oversaw the action, which forms part of the federal investigation known as Cosecha Blanca.
- Investigators link the group to flights ferrying cocaine from Bolivia using low altitude and clandestine strips in Santa Fe and Buenos Aires, with this flight carrying more than 400 kilos.
- The capture advances a phased crackdown that earlier netted pilot Pablo Raynaud in July and Waldo Bilbao weeks later in Rosario, after authorities had posted a reward for Brian Bilbao.