Bahía Blanca: A complaint for a robbery helped to find the second largest drug shipment in local history

The Bahía Blanca Police last night completed the discovery of the second largest drug shipment in its history. This is 500 kilos of marijuana and five kilos of cocaine that were hidden in a small house in the west of the city. However, the data of the huge amount found was not the only thing that attracted attention.

According to police sources to Infobae, the troops made the discovery by chance. It was after they approached the place after a neighbor reported an alleged theft in that house. What they never imagined was that they would find more than half a ton of drugs and that it was not a simple episode of insecurity.

It all happened in a house located on 400 Cerro de la Cabllada Street, in the Kilómetro Cinco neighborhood. The police of the Patrol Command arrived there next to the Second Police Station mobile after the complainant, a 40-year-old man, alerted 911 about a possible robbery. According to the neighbor, the door of the house was broken and open. Besides, there was no person inside him.

According to the sources consulted by this medium, when the uniformed men entered the house - in the presence of two witnesses - they observed a series of elements that caught their attention. First they saw that in one room, on the right hand side, there was an electronic scale plugged in and nearby, there were several packages neatly packed. Some were broken. They also found empty bags.

The uniformed men continued to inspect the place and it was so that in another room they observed a bed with the mattress raised. Under the furniture, they found more packed bricks and some small packages wrapped in aluminum foil. From the smell that emanated from what they had seen, the police almost immediately knew that it was drugs. From there they notified their superiors and an even larger operation began with the aim of finding a suspect. In addition, at first glance, they concluded that the amount of what so far seemed to be drugs, was very high.

The superintendent of the Southern Interior Region, Commissioner Aldo Caminada, the head of the Department, Commissioner Gonzalo Bezos and of the Patrol Command, Gonzalo Sandoval, were present at the site. There were also members of the Scientific Police who, after carrying out various tests, determined that it was marijuana and cocaine.

It was then that the Police decided at that time to set up a mega-operative in the area, waiting for someone to approach the house. And it did happen. A short time later, a 19-year-old girl identified as Brisa Ailén Mora arrived there without knowing that she was surrounded and was immediately detained and held incommunicado, at the disposal of Federal Court 1 led by Walter López Da Silva, the judge who is conducting the investigation and who is trying to establish by at this time the origin of the shipment. In the house they also found just over $750,000 and 900 dollars.

“We set up an operation outside because it could be that the owner of the house arrived. And that was when the resident arrived with his vehicle, which is the one that ends up in detention and at the disposal of Federal Court No. 1 in solitary confinement,” said Commissioner Bezos with the program Hoy Also.

Bezos later told the Telam agency that “the narcotics were in two rooms with packages with packing tape, some in bags and others with loose bricks under a bed.” “According to the first investigations, the young woman rents the house, after contacting us with a real estate agency where the guarantee and the owner of it will also have to be determined,” he added.

He argued that “it is a normal neighborhood house, with a masonry front, fixed and that when the police entered it was determined that there had not been a robbery because the television, the refrigerator and everything was tidy”.

After the discovery of the half ton, the delegate of the Ministry of Security of the province of Buenos Aires, Federico Montero, told the newspaper La Brújula, that the seizure is second most important in Bahía Blanca.

In the ranking, it is second only to the case known as “White Coils”, which occurred in 2017 where 1,375.89 kilos of cocaine were seized inside of eight steel coils in a shed in the local Industrial Park. That case began on March 14, 2017, with a note sent by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to the Federal Operations Division of the Argentine Federal Police (PFA) that warned of a drug trafficking operation in Argentina.

“After white coils, it is the most important seizure that takes place in the city and at the hands of the provincial police,” the official confirmed. “We work tirelessly to combat this scourge and I personally want to see all those who commit crimes or, as in this case, trade drugs and make our children sick rot in prison. I welcome the procedure and, with this, I urge the police not to lower their arms and to continue this fight,” he added.

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