Rosario: 63 people arrested for drug trafficking

Federal forces working in the Santa Fe city of Rosario arrested 63 people, most of them linked to narco-crime cases, and controlled more than 15,000 vehicles and 17,000 people this week, according to a report released Friday by the Ministry of Security. locality located in the Gran Rosario, which was registered days ago. After sending reinforcements of federal security forces personnel defined by President Alberto Fernández for Rosario, the Security Ministry released a “report of operations” carried out in the last week. The increase and intensification of controls of people, vehicles and motorcycles in the adjacencies, routes, streets and avenues of the city allowed in the last week to register 17,337 people, “said the document. In addition, he indicated that during the last seven days “9,255 cars and 6,273 motorcycles” were controlled in the main city of the province of Santa Fe, crossed by one of the cyclical tensions of highly harmful criminality that has dragged for at least a decade. As a result of the preventive actions carried out by the security forces, mainly by personnel of the National Gendarmerie, 63 people were arrested. While the report did not provide details, the ministry said those arrests were made “mostly in the framework of operations against drug trafficking.” According to data from the Public Security Observatory of the province of Santa Fe for the month of February, 70 percent of the homicides that occurred in the Rosario Department were in the context of disputes between “criminal organizations” of the “illegal economy,” which in addition to drug trafficking in the retail modality includes revenge. extortion and disputes over territorial control. On March 8, the Minister of Security, Aníbal Fernández, launched in Rosario the measures announced in the previous days by the president of the Nation to combat crime in Santa Fe. Then 400 gendarmes were incorporated, who until then fulfilled functions in the province of Buenos Aires and Córdoba, to which they already served in Rosario. For the deployment of these dynamic operations, information is crossed with different databases, and dogs and scanners are used for the detection of metals, “said the Security Ministry about its performance last week in Rosario. In addition, he added that “last Monday, the National Gendarmerie seized 426 kilos of cocaine at the Lagos Toll that were hidden in a shipment of beans” that had left the province of Salta and were destined for the Buenos Aires town of Tapiales.

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