With the arrival of Patricia Bullrich to the Ministry of Securitydafter the electoral and political agreement with Javier Milei, we sought to relaunch the area that had had bad press during the last months of the management of Aníbal Fernández, amid a rising wave of crime. The new management appealed to a greater volume of police operations and the use of bombastic names that appeal to humor in their titles to attract attention in the journalistic pages of the genre.
Journalist Juan Cruz Sanz compiled and published in his X account about thirty operatives that include, among other names, that of “Scamming Russia”, “Naked Guns”, “Hard Packages” and more. “Since he took office @PatoBullrich In Security, I notice that they baptize the operations with wonderful names. I took the trouble to compile all ‘the operations’,” posted the reporter from America.
The police operations that appear in the curious list are: Scamming Russia, Korean Karaokes, Operative Route 420, Hard Packages, Green Roller, Magic Carpet, Forbidden Fruits, Pocha’s Family, Bear Market, The Complete Combi, The Traveler, Wet Beans, Deflated Cheeks, Krippy Krush, Monopoly, Christmas Without Snow, Happy Detention, False Label, Snow Men, Beco’s Gang, Tropical Movida, Carioca Smoke, Finding Nemo, Naked Guns, Garden Without Flowers and The Pileteros Gang.
Some users took the roster with jokes, even comparing it to the lineup of the Lollapalooza. But the truth is that the vast majority of the police operations on the list had significant media coverage. Here is a review of some:
Scamming Russia
Liudmila Avdiukhina She was arrested by the Interpol Department of the Federal Police following an international arrest warrant for the Moscow justice. According to Migration data, the woman’s entry into the country was registered on January 1, 2023. The red circular from Interpol against him, issued by the Russian Judiciary, arrived some time later, under the number A-3551/4-2023. The crime Avdiukhina is accused of is a real estate scam of 150 million rubles and more than two million dollars.
Route 420 Operation
The staff of the Section “Junín de los Andes”, which depends on Squadron 33 “San Martín de los Andes” of the National Gendarmerie, detained a long-distance bus from the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. When inspecting the bus, the uniformed officers detected a backpack in the trunk, which contained packages of marijuana and cocaine.
The vehicle control was carried out at kilometer 2,253 of National Route No. 40, province of Neuquén. After the Narcotest field tests, a total of 1.37 kilos of cocaine and 827 grams of “cannabis sativa” were confirmed. The owner of the backpack was immediately arrested.
Hard Packages
In Salta, in the middle of the New Year celebrations and through the National Gendarmerie, in a vehicle control procedure, various packages and wrappers of cocaine and marijuana were discovered hidden in the structure of a vehicle. As a result of the search, the seizure of 10 packages of cocaine with a total weight of 11,864 kilos and 9 packages of marijuana with a total weight of 5,516 kilos. “We seized 16 kilos of marijuana and cocaine that were packaged in 16 amorphous and solid packages,” the Minister of Security later detailed in the ministry’s X account. Two people were arrested in the operation.
green roller
In an anti-drug operation called “Rolo Verde”, National Gendarmerie managed to seize an impressive shipment of 4800 kilos of marijuana on New Year’s Eve in the province of Misiones. The operation was designed to stop the entry of narcotics into the so-called “Circle of Death”a clandestine network of sales, territorial control and hitmen in the coastal area.
Pocha’s Family
The Federal police dismantled a family clan dedicated to drug retailing. After 17 raids carried out in the Buenos Aires district of La Matanza, nine members of the gang were arrested. Federal officials identified the leader of the organization: a woman known as “Pocha”who was supported by her children in criminal tasks and in the recruitment of salespeople for points of sale. In the operation, almost a kilo of cocaine, marijuana plants, precision scales, cash, cell phones, a DVR device, small nylon bags, baking soda and documentation were seized.
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