Overview
- Gendarmería officers on Provincial Route 34 near the Santo Tomás cemetery stopped a taxi and uncovered three boxes hidden under the driver’s seat.
- Criminalists opened the boxes, counted 300 liquid ampoules of 2 milligrams each, and a field test indicated fentanyl.
- The driver from Posadas had no documents for transport, so prosecutors seized the load and the car, and he remains under preventive detention.
- Local officials describe this as the first case in Corrientes linked to fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid used in medical settings that carries high overdose risk when misused.
- Investigators are examining signs the vials came from a Paraguayan laboratory and are probing possible diversion from legal medicine channels and links to criminal groups.