Thirty packages containing 31.9 kilograms of suspected cocaine base were found beneath a truck cab in Ciudad del Este. The driver said he was transporting rice grains, and the vehicle was first taken to the Central Base of the Alto Paraná Regional Investigations Department and then to the Anti-Narcotics Department in Presidente Franco.
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Dionisio Manuel Cáceres Cabrera, a former aide and alleged associate of Sebastián Marset, was arrested in Itacurubí during Operation Nexus II and is being investigated for possible involvement in an international cocaine-trafficking network that allegedly used football to move funds.
A joint operation seized more than 7,000 doses of cocaine, marijuana, weapons, cash and property in five searches in Guarambaré. Twelve people were detained or identified, while investigators examine possible links to a small-scale drug-trafficking and money-laundering structure.
The Court of Asunción has definitively confiscated an aircraft carrying 265 kg of cocaine and sentenced Bolivian pilot Lucio Paz Fernández to 14 years and Peruvian copilot Elmer Figueroa Paredes to 13 years in prison for international drug trafficking.
Son of former Paraguayan congresswoman Perla de Vázquez arrested in San Estanislao with cocaine, marijuana, and a weapon on suspicion of leading a drug trafficking ring in the region.