Buenos Aires, November 14 (NA) – Twenty-three people were detained for allegedly being part of a drug trafficking network in the La Boca neighborhood of Buenos Aires and the Avellaneda district in Greater Buenos Aires. Official sources informed the Argentine News Agency that officers from the City Police's Anti-Drugs Directorate carried out 70 raids as part of an investigation by the Specialized Fiscal Unit for Investigations Linked to Drug Crimes (UFEIDE). Prosecutor Cecilia Amil Martín determined that the suspects operated in Dock Sud, Wilde, Chinatown, and El Bajo, where over 4,500 doses of cocaine and crack cocaine, as well as 500 marijuana plants, were seized. Police detected a bunker located on Necochea Street 1200, where they captured two men with nearly 400 grams of rock-like drugs and confiscated a Citroën C4. Additionally, in a property on Melo Street 500, two greenhouses with 81 marijuana plants, 18 dry branches with buds, and five counterfeit medical seals were found. Officers also seized a .22 caliber pistol with the serial number removed, cutting and packaging materials, 47 cell phones, 1,050 grams of magnesium, cash, a box of bullets, two radios, two laptops, a Tablet, a GoPro camera, a Mercado Pago point-of-sale terminal, a signal router, and an Audi 'A3' model, among other items relevant to the investigation. All detainees were placed at the disposal of the Justice and transferred to the City's jails. The Metropolitan Special Operations Divisions (DOEM), K-9 units, Rapid Deployment Interventions (DIR), Urban Order (DOU), Pacification Tactical Unit (DUTP), personnel from the Gender Violence area, and the Superintendence of Community Security collaborated in the procedures.
