Overview
- Three adults identified as Aníbal David Borda, Daniel Ricardo Acosta and Francisco Exequiel Torres remain detained under a federal order of incomunicación issued by Judge Sebastián Argibay.
- Provincial police at the Urutaú control post obtained judicial authorization to search the Toyota Hilux after noticing the occupants’ nervous behavior.
- K9 Maia alerted to a black backpack in the truck bed that contained five brick-style packages which field tests confirmed as cocaine of high purity.
- Authorities seized the pickup, four high-end cellphones, roughly ARS 831,400–834,000 in cash, 2,000 Paraguayan guaraníes and the gendarme’s credential.
- Preliminary analysis suggests a Bolivian origin for the load, while digital-forensic reviews seek to establish the shipment’s route, destination and any broader links, and a 14-year-old passenger was safeguarded and later returned to his mother.