Cordoba: they disrupt an organization that recruited pregnant women to bring drugs to a prison

In a new action of Justice to fight against Drug traffic, the anti-drug police together with the personnel of the Public Prosecution Service (MPF) dismantled an organization which recruited pregnant women to bring drugs into a prison. According to judicial sources, six people were arrested, including one retired policemanin the city of Cordoba axis cross.

The prosecutor in charge of the fight against drug trafficking, Paulina Lingua, explained that searches were carried out in houses in the city of Cordoba and in the region’s prison unit. The gang of three men and three women took advantage of the fact that prison entry controls are not rigorous for pregnant women since they are not examined by laser scanners, with the idea of ​​not putting in danger to the health of the unborn baby. .

Preliminary survey data indicates that the detainees had numerous criminal records, such as theft, fraud, coercion, sale of drugs, robbery and rape, among others. According to Lingua, in statements on LV3 radio, the crime was planned since they were looking for pregnant women to be able to enter the prison. The gang took advantage of this to have the women give themselves to an inmate for marketing purposes within the same prison unit.

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Following the raids on the prison unit, cocaine, marijuana and other narcotics were found in a cell, along with items for sharing and selling drugs.

For their part, in the houses raided in the city of Córdoba, the security forces arrested three elderly women with family ties to some detainees, seized 513 doses of cocaine and 79 doses of marijuana, a digital scale, a car, 276 060 pesos and 300 00 dollars, among other elements. The case was preemptively qualified as a “conspiracy for the aggravated marketing of narcotics”.

However, this is not the only case in the province where an attempt has been made to bring drugs into a prison. Earlier this year, two men were arrested by the Anti-Drug Police Force (FPA) on charges of sending drugs to inmates at the prison in the town of Cruz del Eje, located in north- east of the province of Córdoba, via a drone.

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The FPA has completed the arrest of the alleged leader of the drug gang responsible for introducing drugs into Penitentiary Unit No. 2 “Adjutor Andrés Abregú”: a woman from the town of La Cumbre who also worked as a teacher kindergarten at the González Elizalde school in the same city.

During the search of a residence at 200 rue Bartolomé Jaime, a few meters from his home, the troops also seized a .38 caliber revolver, 6 projectiles, cash and a car among his personal effects.

By order of prosecutor Raúl Ramírez, head of the Carlos Paz Mobile Investigation Prosecutor’s Office for the Fight Against Drug Trafficking, who oversaw the operation, the woman was transferred in the last hours to the judicial headquarters in charge of the alleged sale narcotics.

Thus ended an investigation into the entry of drugs into Cruz del Eje prison which had begun at least three months ago based on frequent calls to the MPF’s Anonymous Complaints Center (0800-888-8080) . After numerous field missions, in the last week of the year FPA troops finally raided four houses and two prison cells and arrested 36-year-old Javier Frede and another 27-year-old man.

In these operations, 612 doses of marijuana, LSD dies, money, the drone that the subjects used to drop packages in the inner courtyard of the prison and elements used to split illicit substances were also seized.

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