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Coordinated Drug Raids in Argentina and Mexico Yield Arrests and Major Seizures

A nine‑month probe in Rosario helped dismantle a synthetic‑drug network supplying electronic‑music events.

Overview

  • Federal agents in Rosario raided six locations and detained four suspects, seizing 886 MDMA pills, methamphetamine, ketamine, LSD, cannabis, cash, and phones after investigators traced encrypted sales tied to party venues.
  • Sofía Andrea Marino Tamagno, Damián Alejandro Scofano, Candela Azul Pérez López, and Miqueas Iván Golubenko were identified by authorities, and a federal prosecutor requested formal detention hearings.
  • Separately in south Rosario, a 37‑year‑old Santa Fe police subofficer and a 27‑year‑old woman were arrested on microtrafficking allegations, with 77 grams of cocaine, cash, phones, and 9mm ammunition seized.
  • During a search for two juveniles wanted for an attempted homicide, officers arrested the teens’ parents for drug sales and seized 8.77 kilos of marijuana, 44 wraps of cocaine totaling 22.35 grams, cash, and materials for improvised firearms.
  • Gendarmería in Jujuy seized 61.276 kilos of cocaine hidden in a vehicle during a Route 34 stop, while in Mexico City police detained a man and a woman in Cuauhtémoc with packaged narcotics, presenting both cases to prosecutors.