Special Force to Fight Drug Trafficking (FELCN)
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Anti-narcotics agency · 15 reports
- People arrested
- 9
- Cannabis seized
- 61.5076 t
Totals of what these reports state; a report counts when a source it cites names the agency.
FELCN dog finds 42 marijuana packages in Cochabamba parcel store
Felcn's detector dog Lía alerted on two bags in the parcel store of an interprovincial transport company in southern Cochabamba. Officers found 42 vacuum-sealed packages that tested positive for marijuana. No weight or arrest was reported.
FELCN seizes 18 marijuana packages at Santa Cruz bus terminal and 10 in San Ignacio
Bolivia's anti-drug force FELCN seized 18 packages of marijuana from an international bus luggage compartment at the Terminal Bimodal in Santa Cruz and another 10 packages testing positive for marijuana and cocaine base paste from a vehicle near San Ignacio de Velasco. The force opened investigations into the shipments without releasing their weight or saying whether anyone was detained.
Bolivian anti-drug officers seize 38 marijuana packages, arrest three in Puerto Quijarro
Bolivia's anti-narcotics force arrested two women and one man in Puerto Quijarro, on the border with Brazil, after finding 31 packages of marijuana in their vehicle and another seven in a linked property. The officers seized the house, the vehicle and two phones and sent the three to the Public Ministry; no weight was published for the 38 packages.
Arrested 3Sites 1Ex-judge returned to prison after 79 kg cannabis case
Former judge Herbert Zeballos was arrested again in Santa Cruz on 31 October 2026 and returned to Palmasola after a court revoked his house arrest for an alleged violation. The prosecution stems from a January cannabis seizure at a warehouse linked to him, where FELCN reported finding 79 kg of marijuana.
Arrested 1Charged 1Cannabis 79 kgBolivia's FELCN seizes 840 marijuana packages near the Chilean border
Bolivia's anti-narcotics force found 840 packages of marijuana, packed in 30 jute sacks, near the Ollagüe volcano in Potosí department, and detained one person. The force said field tests confirmed marijuana and sent the case to prosecutors.
Arrested 1312 kg of hashish hidden in volcanic stone tiles seized at Bolivian border
Bolivia's anti-narcotics force found 312.25 kg of processed marijuana sold as hashish, packed into artificial volcanic stone tiles in a container travelling from Chile to Santa Cruz, together with 18.2 kg of methamphetamine. Prosecutors in Oruro detained the 48-year-old Bolivian driver and are investigating the shipment's route and destination.
Arrested 1Cannabis 312.25 kgFELCN burns more than 90 tonnes of cannabis at La Angostura
Bolivia's anti-drug force FELCN found dried marijuana and standing cannabis plants at La Angostura, in El Torno, Santa Cruz, and burned more than 90 tonnes. The published accounts name no arrests and give no separate date for the operation.
Driver held as UMOPAR seizes 483 kg of marijuana in Locotal
Bolivian anti-drug officers intercepted a truck carrying 483.6 kilograms of marijuana hidden under bricks at the Locotal checkpoint in Cochabamba on 17 April 2026. The 37-year-old driver was arrested after police found 445 packages in 16 jute sacks, an interdiction later announced alongside regional cocaine seizures.
Arrested 1Cannabis 483.6 kgVehicles confiscated 1Bolivia seizes more than 176 kg of marijuana in three-day Operación 200 sweep
Bolivia's FELCN seized more than 176 kilos of marijuana across five departments between 1 and 3 April 2026 as part of the government's Operación 200. The same sweep collected large amounts of cocaine products and led to two FELCN sergeants being held over tampered drug evidence.
Arrested 2Cannabis 176 kgFELCN burns 36 cannabis greenhouses near Machacamarca
Prosecutors and FELCN burned 36 irrigated greenhouses of cannabis near Laguna Lagunillas, in Machacamarca, Potosí, on the night of 11 March. The Oruro prosecutor put the plants at about 12,600 kilograms.
Cannabis 12.6 tFELCN destroys 25 tonnes of cannabis and artisan lab at Mojón K'asa, Potosí
On 3 March 2026 Bolivia's FELCN eradicated about 25 tonnes of raw marijuana on 3.75 hectares at Mojón K'asa near Toro Toro, burned an artisan processing lab with washing machines and tanks, and found no one to arrest after traffickers fled.
Area 3.8 haCannabis 25 tBolivia seizes 356.75 kg of cannabis hidden in machinery at Viru Viru
Bolivia's anti-drug agency, customs and prosecutors found 356.75 kg of wet cannabis in two shipments from Miami at Viru Viru airport on 19 February 2026. A third package in an industrial compressor was detected the next day; no arrests were reported and a 23-year-old recipient was under investigation.
Cannabis 356.75 kgFELCN intercepts van with 896 packages of marijuana on Potosí–Sucre road
Bolivia's FELCN stopped a private van at a static checkpoint on the Potosí–Sucre highway and found 45 jute sacks holding 896 packages that field-tested positive for marijuana. It was not known whether the driver or anyone else was detained, and the weight was not published.
63 nurseries holding 14.5 tonnes of marijuana burned near Llallagua
Bolivia's FELCN found and incinerated 63 marijuana nurseries holding an estimated 14.5 tonnes in the Lagunillas highlands near Llallagua, Potosí, in what the government minister called a historic first planned entry into the area.
Cannabis 14.5 tBolivia seizes eight tonnes of marijuana in Cochabamba raids
Bolivia's FELCN seized eight metric tons of marijuana in October 2016 raids around Omereque and Mizque in Cochabamba, arresting several growers and burning crops in the fields, with army troops supporting the operation.
Cannabis 8 t