They gave him probation and later they caught him in Salta with over 100 kilos of cocaine

A man was arrested on a route in Salta after being caught transporting 102 kilos of cocainedays after he was granted probation for a similar act in 2017, sources in the case told GlobeLiveMedia.

It is Dario America Gomez, who was charged with aggravated drug transport, along with four other people, detailed by the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office of Salta. Gómez, who was convicted of carrying a similar load in 2017, this time drove another big drug smuggling operation to Buenos Aires.

At the request of the prosecution promoted by the Complex Cases Area, in charge of the Federal Prosecutor Ricardo Toranzos, the Federal Judge of Guarantees 1 of Salta, Julio Bavio, formalized the criminal charges against Gómez.

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The charge for the offense of transporting narcotics aggravated by the number of participants also reached Terrace Jose Flores and three women, one of whom also has a criminal record. The defendants were arrested last Friday, in the context of two procedures related to the post of Cabeza de Buey and El Naranjo, on National Road 34, south of Salta.

When presenting the case, The prosecutor explained that the arrests were the result of an investigation that began on December 15, 2022.when a person who shielded his identity revealed details of how end-destination drug trafficking operations were carried out in the provinces of Buenos Aires and Cordoba.

Gómez, originally from Santiago del Estero, and Flores Terraza, a Bolivian national, were appointed to lead the organization. In this regard, the prosecution recalled that both had been arrested in 2017, when they were transporting 100 kilos of cocaine in a Peugeot 207 car, for which they were convicted. On February 10, they were granted probation, as part of a sentence they would have served on April 22, 2025.

Meanwhile, regarding the defendant with the criminal record, the prosecutor indicated that she had been convicted in the province of Santa Fe, for the offenses of transporting narcotics and possession for marketing purposes, although in this case , the sentence was a 3-year suspended prison sentence. , made on April 9, 2021.

Toranzos explained that the defendants were part of a drug trafficking organization, with defined roles and drug control, which was obtained in Bolivia and then entered the country. through the region of La Quiaca, in Jujuy, and follow the routes and alternative routes of the Calchaquíes valleys.

From this information, the prosecution has entrusted the gendarmerie with intelligence and field missionswhich made it possible to establish the movements of the organization.

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In this way, last Friday he was arrested at the Cabeza Buey checkpointa Mercedes Benz car, driven by Gómez, who was traveling accompanied by two women, trying to disguise the traffic as a family trip.

During the requisition of the vehicle, the troops of the Anti-Drug Investigation Section of Salta (Secandrosal) detected a double bottom mounted under the driver’s seatfrom where they took 103 parcels, for a total of 102 kilos of cocaine.

Almost simultaneously, at the El Naranjo checkpoint in Rosario de la Frontera, Flores Terraza and another accomplice were arrested, traveling in a Volkswagen Gol Trend car.

During the hearing, the judge declared the legality of the detentiongranted the accusation and the request for preventive detention requested by the prosecution, under the modality of effective prison for Gómez, Flores Terraza and one of the women detained, while for the other two they were granted house arrestbecause they have minors in their care.

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