Overview

• Gendarmería Nacional officers stopped a bus from Orán at the Molle Yaco checkpoint on National Route 9, where they flagged two Bolivian nationals for exhibiting suspicious behavior.
• Radiographic scans at Centro de Salud Zenón J. Santillán confirmed the presence of 197 ingested cocaine capsules weighing a total of 2.244 kilograms.
• The Juzgado Federal N°2 de Tucumán ordered a controlled medical evacuation to safely extract the swallowed narcotics.
• The interception forms part of Operativo Lapacho’s intensified inspections along key smuggling corridors in Tucumán Province.
• Both suspects remain detained and incommunicado under federal court supervision as authorities continue their investigation.