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Cosquín Rock Drug Sweep Nets Six Arrests, Over 16,000 Doses Seized

The case now sits with Córdoba’s anti-narcotics prosecutor under Argentina’s drug statute.

Overview

  • Police executed a preventive zero‑tolerance operation during the Feb. 14–15 festival at Santa María de Punilla, reporting 946 positive procedures.
  • Authorities detailed 15,872 marijuana doses and 152 cocaine doses among the seizures, along with MDMA, LSD and other designer drugs.
  • The deployment included road checkpoints on Autovía Punilla and National Route 38, a mobile scanner, tactical teams, plainclothes investigators and K9 units.
  • Six adults were detained, imputed under National Drug Law 23.737 and placed at the Fiscalía de Lucha Contra el Narcotráfico, with the investigation ongoing.
  • La Voz reported the seizure of 6.5 kilos of marijuana brownies and 113 complaints of cellphone thefts inside the venue across the two days.