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Peruvian Woman Processed and Detained After 9 Kilos of Cocaine Found in Oatmeal Packs at Ezeiza

Investigators treat her as a courier for an organized network, with a judge ordering preventive detention during an ongoing search for higher-level operatives.

Detuvieron en el aeropuerto de Ezeiza a una mujer de nacionalidad peruana que llevaba nueve kilos de cocaína ocultos en paquetes de avena.
La cocaína había sido ocultada en paquetes de avena
Llevaba nueve kilos de cocaína ocultos en paquetes de avena: quedó detenida en Ezeiza. (Gentileza)
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Overview

  • Liliana Isabel Aguilar Bahamonde, 33, was formally processed for attempted export contraband of narcotics and placed in preventive detention by Economic Criminal Court No. 12, Judge Marcelo Aguinsky presiding.
  • PSA and ARCA agents detained her on November 7 at Ezeiza during preventive checks after incongruent answers, as she prepared to board Air France flight AF411 to Paris with a final destination of Florence.
  • Authorities found 18 consumer-style oatmeal or granola packages in her carry-on, with field tests indicating cocaine in all 18 and a total weight reported by PSA of 9,224 grams.
  • She arrived in Argentina on October 31 and was staying at a hotel in Buenos Aires; she declined to testify but provided the passcode to her seized phone.
  • The judge described her as a strategic link used by traffickers, and investigators report the phone analysis has not yet identified higher-ranking members, so the probe continues.