Sunday May 7, 2023 | 7:42 p.m.
Members of Squadron 11 “San Ignacio” were carrying out a road prevention operation on National Route 12, at the height of the Los Paraísos area, when they made stop signs to a pick-up truck, whose driver evaded the orders of the personnel and he ran away
After omitting the stop signs in a road control of the Force, the #gendarmes They found a van with 15,000 packs of illegal cigarettes inside.
💉 Occurred in #Missionson #RN12.
âœ”ï¸ It was found overturned on the shoulder with no occupants. pic.twitter.com/PHhISLXyMN— National Gendarmerie (@gendarmerie) May 7, 2023
Given this fact, the officials began a controlled monitoring of the vehicle and alerted the patrols in the area. After several kilometers, the gendarmes found the truck overturned on the shoulder and without occupants, for which they proceeded to carry out a search, finding inside 15,000 packages of cigarettes of foreign origin without customs guarantee.
Members of Criminalistics and Forensic Studies carried out a fingerprint survey to find the possible owner of the truck, and discovered that he had a kidnapping warrant for robbery, in the Partido de la Matanza, province of Buenos Aires.
The Federal Court and the Federal Prosecutor of Oberá intervened, which directed the confiscation of the merchandise and the vehicle, in violation of Law 22,415.