Overview

• División Investigaciones Antidrogas Zona Sur executed a July 29 raid at General Paunero 800 in Sarandí based on intelligence from Unidad Investigativa Nº9.
• Officers seized 1,390 grams of MDMA, an automated pill press, five mold sets and chemical precursors sufficient for about 14,000 ecstasy tablets.
• Two suspects arrested earlier in Flores—a 66-year-old Colombian man and a 63-year-old Bolivian woman caught with 500 pills—remain in custody pending indictment hearings.
• Judge María Eugenia Capuchetti of Juzgado Federal No. 5 ordered the laboratory’s permanent closure and sent all seized substances and machinery to federal authorities.
• Prosecutors say the operation builds on global enforcement efforts, including a recent raid on Spain’s largest clandestine MDMA facility, to counter sophisticated synthetic drug networks.