Overview
- In Puno, Peru, police seized 62 brick-style packages of cocaine weighing 63.659 kg in four boxes sent from Lima via a cargo agency, with markings of a dolphin and an estimated local value above $93,000.
- Peruvian anti-drug units reported destroying 24 clandestine cocaine labs in remote sectors of San Pedro de Putina Punco and incinerating precursors and equipment valued at more than $89,500.
- Authorities in Puno said the shipment moved as a parcel through the Shalom company toward the Desaguadero border to evade road controls, and investigators said they have identified the sender and intended recipient.
- Spain’s National Police in Vigo dismantled a convoy-based distribution ring moving cocaine and marijuana across Galicia and northern Portugal, arresting three people including the alleged leader and seizing 10 kg of marijuana, 4 kg of cocaine and cash.
- In Argentina’s Santiago province, police intercepted three pickup trucks carrying more than 60 kg of high-purity cocaine, detained nine people including a former gendarme and, under orders from Federal Judge Sebastián Argibay, seized vehicles and phones; in Peru, prosecutors in Piura secured nine months of preventive detention for four suspects in earlier parcel-linked seizures, while an Ica raid found about 20 kg of marijuana hidden in supplement containers and 1.5 kg of cocaine base.