A mega operation of the City Police is carried out in the heart of the Flores neighborhood. Patrol cars, hydrant trucks, assault cars, fences and dozens of police and firefighters were distributed around at least 300 meters on Nazca Avenue facing a series of raids on textile warehouses.
From shortly before 6 in the morning, an ambitious police operation was deployed on Nazca Avenue, between Avellaneda Avenue and the Sarmiento train tracks. The agents installed fences to interrupt traffic on the streets Bogota and Bacacay and traffic in the area is expected to be altered throughout the course of the morning.
As confirmed by authorized sources Infobaethe operation responds to an important series of raids on textile warehouses, from where merchandise was distributed for illegal sale throughout the neighborhood. Police tasks will be carried out on Nazca Avenue between Bogotá and Bacacay and will affect three specific deposits.
The procedure was ordered by the Contraventional Criminal Prosecutor’s Office and Misdemeanors 25, by Dr. Roberto Maragliano and ordered by the Criminal, Misdemeanor and Misdemeanor Court No. 12 of the City of Buenos Aires.
Also, the operation responds to an investigation of at least three months in which warehouses were detected from where clothing was distributed for illegal sale in stores and in other smaller deposits in the surroundings of Nazca Avenue and Bacacay Street.
It is still unknown if the warehouses raided are also responsible for the distribution of textile material for the illegal sale of clothing in the famous maintenance posts.
It is estimated that the series of raids will begin at 8 in the morning and there is fear of possible resistance to the operation among some neighbors and the owners of the warehouses.
Like little, The operation takes place in the middle of a week of very strong activity among clothing stores throughout the Flores neighborhood. The arrival of Mother’s Day next Sunday, October 16 implies an increase in the flow of customers and the replenishment of merchandise in the premises throughout the week prior to the date.
This Wednesday’s police mega-operative recalls a similar event that occurred in the Once neighborhood at the end of 2021, when the Special Operations Division of the City Police carried out a series of raids in at least 42 premises and textile warehouses where clothes were stored to be sold illegally.
When the policemen entered in the middle of the night they found the locals accommodated to sell the false merchandise. But there was no one. The objective of the operation, also carried out by officials from the Center for Judicial Investigations, was precisely to disrupt these businesses.
The great surprise of the operation was the discovery of a warehouse of 900 square meters divided into three floors where tons of apocryphal merchandise were stored, including electronic products. The elements were ready to be sold by the vendors in Once, and also to be transferred to other parts of the country.
As a result of the operation there were isolated clashes between some street vendors and police officers and the owner of the property was arrested, named Gustavo Antonio M., 52 years oldwho was registered with the AFIP in the field of sale of flowers, plants and seeds, among other nursery products.
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