More of 30 raids ordered this saturday Federal Justice in Rosario and the region they threw the kidnapping of some 40 kilos of cocainestretching substances, weapons, money, vehicles and the arrest of around 15 people who were left at the disposal of Judge Carlos Vera Barros, indicated spokesmen for the Argentine Federal Police (PFA).
At dawn, personnel from the Rosario Federal Drug Superintendence carried out 35 search warrants at different points of Rosary, Great Rosary and other towns like Canada de Gomez and Villa Eloisa. The operation was dubbed White Friday.
According to the feds, one of the main defendants is Facundo Macaco Muñoz, already convicted in 2019 for drug trafficking and housed in the Ezeiza prison complex. Macaco’s cell was searched for cell phones and business “accounting” notes. Also Marcelo Bassi was arrested in the city of Santa Feolder brother of the better known Luis –and currently in prison– “Pollo” Bassi, the public enemy of the Cantero clan in the past decade whose family was decimated in the streets of Villa Gobernador Gálvez.
Monkey, who has been out of the street since June 2013, gained notoriety in the past decade as a hit man for Pollo Bassi. In 2017, he was tried and acquitted in the provincial courts in the trial for the murder of the then leader of the Los Monos gang, Claudio Pájaro Cantero, along with Pollo Bassi himself and Milton Damario. However, on December 13, 2019, the Federal Oral Court 3 of Rosario sentenced to 8 and a half years in prison as part of a organization dedicated to the distribution and sale of narcotics. At that time, he was credited with running the business from the Piñero prison. In addition, he has a conviction for the crime of Pablo Colasso, committed in 2012, a cause that he also keeps Pollo Bassi behind bars.
Now a recent investigation detected that Macaco, this time from the Buenos Aires federal prison, I was in charge of a group of at least 11 people who fulfilled different roles in the drug distribution and sale operation.
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The kidnapping indicated by the sources refers to 40 kilos of cocaine mostly in its classic brick presentation; 20 kilos of cutting substance; heavy-caliber weapons such as 9-millimeter pistols and tactical shotguns with telescopic sights; ammunition; more than 1 million 500 thousand pesos; scales, seals; cellphones; high-end cars and notebooks with notes. And the arrest of 15 people.
The proceedings began the night before when the detectives detected the “lowering” -replacement- of the drug at an address in Villa Gobernador Gálvez, which had been under surveillance for months.
From this it was inferred that the drug organization was preparing to distribute the drug among its main clientsfor which reason the federal prosecutor Claudio Kishimoto and the Procunar Rosario, in charge of Matías Scilabra and Diego Iglesias, requested search warrants from Judge Vera Barros.
The measures resulted in the seizure of probative material and the “disarticulation in its entirety” of the organization that had been under investigation for more than a year, said spokesmen for the Ministry of National Security.
