(6 Oct 2022)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Buenos Aires – 6 October 2022
1. Armed police standing next to bricks of confiscated cocaine that has been laid out on the floor
2. Various of cocaine
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Sergio Berni, Security Minister, Buenos Aires Province:
'The result of the operation was thanks to an investigation that we had been carrying out on a gang of Peruvians, who brought drugs into Argentina in complicity with a group of Paraguayans. That drug entered through northern Argentina, it was guarded by heavily armed men and arrived in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, distributed to be sold."
4. Various of bricks of confiscated cocaine that has been laid out on the floor
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Sergio Berni, Security Minister, Buenos Aires Province:
"This is related to a Peruvian cartel, a very sophisticated cartel in terms of its operation in Peru and that is why the prosecutor (Santiago) Marquevich is exchanging information abroad to continue advancing (with the investigation) outside our Argentine Republic."
6. Police guarding the cocaine
7. A police officer wearing a skull symbol on his uniform and holding a machine gun
STORYLINE:
Police in Argentina announced Thursday that they have arrested three men from Peru and three from Paraguay with almost half a ton of pure cocaine brought by land from Peru protected by heavily armed men.
Police said the drug, after being cut, could supply the populous suburbs of Buenos Aires for about a month.
Sergio Berni, the Security Minister for Buenos Aires Province, said the bust is related to a "very sophisticated" drug cartel from Peru and that Argentine prosecutor Santiago Marquevich is exchanging information with authorities from that country to aid the investigation.
Argentina has been experiencing an increase in drug dealing activity, mostly in Rosario, Argentina's third largest city in the province of Santa Fe.
In February adulterated cocaine killed 20 people and seriously sickened 74 others in Buenos Aires.
AP Video by Victor R. Caivano
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