Overview
- Rosario prosecutors charged seven people after October raids, and Judge Aldo Bilbao Benítez ordered preventive detention for four while releasing three women under conduct rules for six months.
- The Rosario case stems from a Policía Federal probe launched in August 2024 into dealing in Tablada and Las Flores, with 19 searches on October 23 and additional arrests on October 27.
- Evidence seized in Rosario included hundreds of cocaine packets, cash, precision scales, and a Bersa pistol, supporting charges that two suspects sold drugs at retail between September 2024 and April 2025.
- In Santa Fe city, Prefectura carried out seven searches in Centenario and Varadero Sarsotti under Provincial Law 14.239, leaving two people detained and three released after identification, with cocaine, marijuana, a .22 pistol, 131 rounds, phones, cash, and a scale seized.
- Later Monday in Rosario’s Nuevo Alberdi, provincial investigators detained two women linked by authorities to the Romero clan and reported seizing 729 cocaine wraps, marijuana in bricks and flowers, a 9 mm pistol, a .32 revolver, phones, scales, and cutting materials.