Overview

• Argentina’s Federal Oral Court in Concepción del Uruguay gave Jade Isabela Callau Barriga a three-year suspended sentence after an abbreviated trial.
• The court ordered immediate expulsion after immigration authorities deemed her stay irregular, and she was flown to Santa Cruz de la Sierra’s Viru Viru airport.
• The ruling includes a fine of more than 2.7 million pesos imposed on the Bolivian national.
• She was arrested on January 22 after a light aircraft landed in rural Holt Ibicuy, where police seized ten bales containing 342 packages totaling 358.923 kilograms of cocaine with purity above 85%.
• Investigators identified logistics bases in General Rodríguez and an apartment in Buenos Aires, and media reports note her family tie to convicted trafficker Jorge Adalid Granier Ruiz, known as “El Nono.”