Anti-Drug Directorate (DIRANDRO)
🇵🇪 Peru · Anti-narcotics agency · 8 reports
- People arrested
- 8
- Cannabis seized
- 27.5656 t
Totals of what these reports state; a report counts when a source it cites names the agency.
Two held with ten marijuana packages in a motokar in Punchana
Anti-drug police in Iquitos stopped a motokar in Punchana district and found a backpack with ten packages of suspected marijuana, then detained the driver and his passenger. Both are under investigation for illicit drug trafficking, and the exact weight of the drug had not been established.
Arrested 2Three held with 15 kg of marijuana buried in a Ventanilla house patio
Police in Ventanilla, Callao, detained three alleged members of Los Patrones de la Marimba and seized 15 kilos of marijuana buried in a house patio, stored in bedrooms and hidden in a mototaxi. The detainees were taken to the Callao prison and placed at the disposal of the judicial authorities.
Arrested 3Cannabis 15 kgPeru and Colombia seize 9,229 kg of cannabis at Bellavista de Callarú
Peruvian and Colombian forces seized 9,229.1 kilograms of suspected cannabis at Bellavista de Callarú, in Ramón Castilla district, Loreto. The defence ministry said the load was sent for forensic tests. No arrests were reported.
Cannabis 9.2291 tPeru and Brazil seize about 14 tonnes of skunk-type marijuana by the Yavarí river
Peruvian police and soldiers acting with Brazilian troops seized about 14 tonnes of skunk-type marijuana on the Peruvian bank of the Yavarí river, in Loreto's Mariscal Ramón Castilla province, along with rifles, a submachine gun and ammunition. Peru's defence ministry first reported about eight tonnes; the larger figure came after the load was weighed jointly.
Cannabis 14 t1,579 kg of cannabis seized in steel beams in Aguas Verdes
Peru and Ecuador police seized 1,579.5 kg of creepy marijuana hidden inside 32 steel beams stored in Aguas Verdes, Tumbes, during Operación Trilogía. Officials valued the 1,957 packages at about US$3.2 million and placed them in custody for transfer to Lima; no suspects were named.
Cannabis 1.5795 tSunat finds 883 kg of marijuana in a river boat at San Francisco de Yahuma
Peru's customs agency Sunat said officers found 883.30 kilograms of marijuana in a fibreglass river boat at the native community of San Francisco de Yahuma, in Mariscal Ramón Castilla, Loreto. Sunat valued the load at more than 78,000 soles and impounded the boat, which it said had a Brazilian 200-horsepower motor; no arrests were reported.
Cannabis 883.3 kg884 kg of marijuana seized at Yahuma on Colombia-Peru border
On 13 March 2026 Colombian and Peruvian forces intercepted a boat at Brazo Yahuma on the Amazon border and seized 884 kg of marijuana, which authorities linked to the GAO E-48 Comandos de Frontera. The crew fled into the jungle with no arrests reported, and officials framed the seizure as part of Plan Ayacucho Plus against Amazon drug logistics.
Cannabis 884 kgLima toll interdiction finds 975 kg of marijuana in a hidden van compartment
Peruvian anti-drug prosecutors and police seized 974.727 kg of marijuana in 940 brick-shaped packages hidden in a van at the Evitamiento toll on 17 November 2025, detaining driver Ángel Jiménez and two men stopped with tools in Chorrillos.
Arrested 3Cannabis 974.727 kg