{"version":1,"id":"uy","name":"Uruguay","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/country/uy/","count":33,"totals":{"reports":33,"arrested":797,"plants_destroyed":2653,"hectares":0,"kg_seized":10331.602,"deaths":0},"by_type":{"eradication":0,"seizure":15,"raid":5,"arrest":1,"prosecution":0,"sentence":12,"execution":0,"death":0},"latest":"2026-10-13","reports":[{"id":"maldonado-90-raids-30kg-marijuana-2026","code":"CET-BF5XXF","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/maldonado-90-raids-30kg-marijuana-2026/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/BF5XXF/","date":"2026-10-13","added_at":"2026-11-09T01:58:48.767414Z","added_at_source":"recorded","updated_at":"2026-11-10T06:28:33.000Z","country":"uy","country_name":"Uruguay","place":"Maldonado department","coordinates":[-34.9069,-54.9478],"precision":"region","type":"seizure","also":["raid","prosecution"],"title":"Maldonado police seize 30 kg of marijuana in 90 raids","summary":"Maldonado police reported 90 anti-drug raids leading to 104 people charged or convicted and 47 drug sale points dismantled. The operations seized 30 kilograms of marijuana along with cocaine, vehicles, firearms and cash.","status":"verified","figures":{"charged":104,"kg_seized":30,"sites":47,"vehicles":50},"details":{"agencies":["Brigada Departamental Antidrogas","Jefatura de Policía de Maldonado"],"agency_types":["police"],"products":[{"product":"flower","kg":30}],"activity":["sale"],"case_stage":"charged","date_precision":"exact","region":"Maldonado"},"data_sources":{"details.activity":[2],"details.agencies":[2],"details.agency_types":[2],"details.case_stage":[2],"details.products":[2],"figures.charged":[2],"figures.kg_seized":[2],"figures.sites":[2],"figures.vehicles":[2]},"tags":["maldonado","antidrogas"],"cover":null,"media":[],"cfi_id":null,"created_by_model":"swancloud/muse-spark-1.3-contributor#xhigh","open_questions":["FM Gente reported more than 100 raids and about 60 kilos of cocaine and pasta base, while the Interior Ministry's detailed statement reports 90 raids and more than 77 kilos of cocaine; this report uses the ministry's figures and a rounded 30 kilos of marijuana stated by both.","The statements cover operations since the start of the current administration and the tribute on 13 October 2026, but do not give start and end dates for each raid, so 13 October 2026 is used as the report date for the published campaign total."],"sources":[{"title":"Carlos Negro destacó la gestión policial en Maldonado y anunció 100 nuevos efectivos más; hubo 100 allanamientos y se incautaron 90 kilos entre cocaína, pasta base y marihuana","url":"https://www.fmgente.com.uy/noticias/carlos-negro-destaco-gestion-policial-84028.html","publisher":"FM Gente","date":"2026-10-13","archived":null},{"title":"Operativos antidrogas en Maldonado: incautaciones millonarias y más de 100 personas imputadas","url":"https://www.gub.uy/ministerio-interior/comunicacion/noticias/operativos-antidrogas-maldonado-incautaciones-millonarias-100-personas","publisher":"Ministerio del Interior (Uruguay)","date":"2026-10-13","archived":null}]},{"id":"rivera-manantial-355-plants","code":"CET-KX2J75","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/rivera-manantial-355-plants/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/KX2J75/","date":"2026-09-09","added_at":"2026-10-30T11:45:22.000Z","added_at_source":"git","updated_at":"2026-11-10T06:28:33.000Z","country":"uy","country_name":"Uruguay","place":"Rivera","coordinates":[-30.9001,-55.5408],"precision":"locality","type":"raid","also":["arrest","seizure"],"title":"Police seize 355 cannabis plants in six Rivera raids","summary":"On 9 September 2026 police searched six places in Rivera and a rural part of the department, arrested three people, and seized 355 cannabis plants and 4.732 kg of plant material.","status":"reported","figures":{"arrested":3,"kg_seized":4.732},"details":{"agency_types":["police","prosecutor"],"products":[{"product":"plants"}],"activity":["cultivation"],"setting":["vehicle"],"case_stage":"investigation","date_precision":"exact"},"data_sources":{"details.activity":[1],"details.agency_types":[1,2],"details.case_stage":[1],"details.date_precision":[1],"details.products":[1],"details.setting":[1],"figures.arrested":[1,2],"figures.kg_seized":[1]},"tags":["rivera","operacion-manantial"],"cover":null,"media":[{"kind":"photo","url":"https://www.gub.uy/ministerio-interior/comunicacion/noticias/operacion-manantial-logra-desarticulacion-grupo-delictivo-dedicado-plantacion","media_url":"https://www.gub.uy/ministerio-interior/sites/ministerio-interior/files/imagenes/noticias/WhatsApp%20Image%202026-09-09%20at%2012.03.43.jpeg","publisher":"Ministerio del Interior","caption":"Rows of young plants under mesh on hoops in a field (Ministerio del Interior)."},{"kind":"photo","url":"https://www.elobservador.com.uy/nacional/policia-desarticulo-plantacion-marihuana-rivera-incautaron-mas-350-plantas-y-hay-tres-detenidos-n6056831","media_url":"https://media.elobservador.com.uy/p/a8fd8a0bc74b2cb1f12f92bd6612a27b/adjuntos/362/imagenes/100/770/0100770196/1200x675/smart/plantacion-marihuana-rivera.jpg","publisher":"El Observador","caption":"The same field of young plants under mesh, credited by El Observador to the Interior Ministry."},{"kind":"photo","url":"https://www.gub.uy/ministerio-interior/comunicacion/noticias/operacion-manantial-logra-desarticulacion-grupo-delictivo-dedicado-plantacion","media_url":"https://www.gub.uy/ministerio-interior/sites/ministerio-interior/files/styles/documento/public/imagenes/noticias/WhatsApp%20Image%202026-09-09%20at%2014.42.57.jpeg","publisher":"Ministerio del Interior","caption":"Rows of young plants under white mesh, with the sheeting pulled aside (Ministerio del Interior)."}],"cfi_id":null,"created_by_model":"spacexai/grok-4.7#medium","open_questions":["The rural plot is not named. The pin is the city of Rivera.","The three people are identified only by age. No names were published.","The reports say a judge ordered them held and taken to the prosecutor that afternoon. No charge or later outcome is given.","The plants are described as seized. The reports do not say they were destroyed.","A cocaine and coca-paste seizure in Artigas and Salto the previous week is a different investigation, left out here.","Further aerial ministry photos of the same clearing remain without separate media_url entries after consolidation.","Teledoce reports only short and long firearms, without the shotgun and pistol details of the ministry statement.","Teledoce does not repeat the six-search count, the 4.732 kg of plant material or the vehicles seized.","Subrayado's headline and lead give 369 cannabis plants, while the Interior Ministry's statements on both the raid and the convictions give 355; the reports do not explain the difference.","Subrayado reports five bags holding almost five kilograms of marijuana, while the Interior Ministry gives 4.732 kg of plant material in five nylon bags; the ministry's measured figure is used.","No date is given for the sentencing hearing itself; 11 September 2026, when the Interior Ministry announced the convictions, stands in for it.","The sources do not say whether there is an appeal or how the prison terms are to be served, or whether the sentences are final.","Telenoche gives the plant material as 4,732 gramos, which appears to be a unit error for the 4.732 kilograms it states in its summary; the kilogram figure is used.","The earlier 2019 and 2020 plantations on the same estate involving the same suspect are not recorded as separate events and could not be checked against other sources here.","The property is described only as a Cofusa forestry estate on Ruta 5 in Rivera department; no closer location is published, so the pin remains the city of Rivera.","Operación Manantial: dos hombres fueron condenados por producción de marihuana en Rivera (Telenoche) could not be opened again to check its quotations (access challenge: Cloudflare blocked access to the article; archived fallback unavailable (Wayback availability answered HTTP 429). No AI research was started); what it says is as the AI read it."],"sources":[{"title":"Operación Manantial logra la desarticulación de grupo delictivo dedicado a la plantación de marihuana en Rivera","url":"https://www.gub.uy/ministerio-interior/comunicacion/noticias/operacion-manantial-logra-desarticulacion-grupo-delictivo-dedicado-plantacion","publisher":"Ministerio del Interior","date":"2026-09-09","archived":null},{"title":"Policía desarticuló plantación de marihuana en Rivera: incautaron más de 350 plantas y hay tres detenidos","url":"https://www.elobservador.com.uy/nacional/policia-desarticulo-plantacion-marihuana-rivera-incautaron-mas-350-plantas-y-hay-tres-detenidos-n6056831","publisher":"El Observador","date":"2026-09-10","archived":null},{"title":"Desarticularon un grupo que plantaba marihuana en un campo de Rivera: incautaron 355 plantas y hay tres detenidos","url":"https://www.telenoche.com.uy/sociedad/desarticularon-un-grupo-que-plantaba-marihuana-un-campo-rivera-incautaron-355-plantas-y-hay-tres-detenidos-n5404498","publisher":"Telenoche","date":"2026-09-09","archived":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260912002743id_/https://www.telenoche.com.uy/sociedad/desarticularon-un-grupo-que-plantaba-marihuana-un-campo-rivera-incautaron-355-plantas-y-hay-tres-detenidos-n5404498"},{"title":"Operación Manantiales: incautaron 355 plantas de marihuana y armas en un campo de Rivera","url":"https://www.teledoce.com/telemundo/policiales/operacion-manantiales-incautaron-355-plantas-de-marihuana-y-armas-en-un-campo-de-rivera/","publisher":"Teledoce","date":"2026-09-09","archived":null},{"title":"Dos condenados por las 369 plantas de marihuana en campo de Rivera; uno tenía antecedentes por plantar en ese predio","url":"https://www.subrayado.com.uy/dos-condenados-las-369-plantas-marihuana-campo-rivera-uno-tenia-antecedentes-plantar-ese-predio-n1017910","publisher":"Subrayado","date":"2026-09-11","archived":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261021195659id_/https://www.subrayado.com.uy/dos-condenados-las-369-plantas-marihuana-campo-rivera-uno-tenia-antecedentes-plantar-ese-predio-n1017910"},{"title":"Operación Manantial en Rivera permite condenas por varios delitos relacionados a estupefacientes y armas de fuego","url":"https://www.gub.uy/ministerio-interior/comunicacion/noticias/operacion-manantial-rivera-permite-condenas-varios-delitos-relacionados","publisher":"Ministerio del Interior","date":"2026-09-11","archived":null},{"title":"Operación Manantial: dos hombres fueron condenados por producción de marihuana en Rivera","url":"https://www.telenoche.com.uy/sociedad/operacion-manantial-dos-hombres-fueron-condenados-produccion-marihuana-rivera-n5404566","publisher":"Telenoche","date":"2026-09-10","archived":null}]},{"id":"montevideo-comcar-unit4-marijuana-seizure-2026","code":"CET-PXE341","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/montevideo-comcar-unit4-marijuana-seizure-2026/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/PXE341/","date":"2026-08-23","added_at":"2026-11-07T02:07:50.324606Z","added_at_source":"recorded","updated_at":"2026-11-08T16:42:01.000Z","country":"uy","country_name":"Uruguay","place":"Unidad N° 4 (ex Comcar), Santiago Vázquez, Montevideo","coordinates":[-34.7933,-56.3617],"precision":"locality","type":"seizure","also":["raid"],"title":"2.3 kg of marijuana seized in a drugs haul at Montevideo's Comcar prison","summary":"Police found 2.320 kilos of marijuana and other drugs, phones and routers near a module of Unit 4 of Uruguay's national rehabilitation institute, the former Comcar prison, in Montevideo on 23 August 2026. The Ministry of the Interior valued the combined haul at about US$330,000, and the case moved to a narcotics prosecutor investigating collusion by prison staff, soldiers and prisoners.","status":"verified","figures":{"kg_seized":2.32,"value":{"amount":330000,"currency":"USD"}},"details":{"agency_types":["police","prosecutor"],"products":[{"product":"flower","kg":2.32}],"activity":["trafficking"],"setting":["prison","building"],"case_stage":"investigation","date_precision":"exact"},"data_sources":{"details.activity":[1],"details.agency_types":[1],"details.case_stage":[1],"details.products":[1],"details.setting":[1],"figures.kg_seized":[1],"figures.value":[1]},"tags":["montevideo","comcar","inr","marijuana","prison"],"cover":null,"media":[{"kind":"photo","url":"https://www.gub.uy/ministerio-interior/comunicacion/noticias/incautan-17-kilos-droga-operativo-unidad-n4-del-inr","media_url":"https://www.gub.uy/ministerio-interior/sites/ministerio-interior/files/styles/documento/public/imagenes/noticias/UIAP%201%20OK.jpg?itok=htZ3Y_Kz","publisher":"Ministerio del Interior","caption":"Drug packages and electronic devices seized in Unit 4 of the INR, in a photo published with the ministry's statement. 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Photo: Ministerio del Interior"}],"cfi_id":null,"created_by_model":"swancloud/muse-spark-1.3-contributor#xhigh","open_questions":["The ministry announced the operation on 24 August 2026; the seizure itself is placed on the afternoon of Sunday 23 August 2026 by la diaria.","The Ministry of the Interior called the 2.320 kilos only a 'vegetable substance'; la diaria and later reporting describe it as marijuana, and that description is used.","The US$330,000 value is the ministry's estimate for the whole 17.567-kilo haul, not for the marijuana alone.","No count of people detained or charged over this seizure was published; the prosecution ordered documentation and camera review, and the narcotics prosecutor took over the case.","la diaria quotes investigation sources putting the sale value at about US$300,000; this report uses the ministry's US$330,000 figure.","The marijuana's origin and how it was packed were not reported.","The Comcar complex is in Santiago Vázquez, on Montevideo's western edge; the map point is the prison's locality, not the exact spot where the drugs were found.","La Mañana quotes investigation sources at about US$300,000 for the whole haul, alongside the ministry's US$330,000; the report keeps the ministry's figure.","The article does not say how many people are detained or charged over the Unit 4 seizure, or whether the soldiers' refusal to provide the guard list has since been resolved.","The article also reports a separate find on 27 August, when a Guardia Republicana scanner detected 5.3 kilos of drugs and 29 phones hidden in a water heater aboard an INR truck from the former women's Unit 5 in Colón; that is a different event and is not counted here."],"sources":[{"title":"Incautan más de 17 kilos de droga en operativo en la Unidad n°4 del INR","url":"https://www.gub.uy/ministerio-interior/comunicacion/noticias/incautan-17-kilos-droga-operativo-unidad-n4-del-inr","publisher":"Ministerio del Interior","date":"2026-08-24","archived":null},{"title":"Investigan organización criminal integrada por policías, militares y personas privadas de libertad por incautación en ex Comcar","url":"https://ladiaria.com.uy/justicia/articulo/2026/8/investigan-organizacion-criminal-integrada-por-policias-militares-y-personas-privadas-de-libertad-por-incautacion-en-ex-comcar/","publisher":"la diaria","date":"2026-08-28","archived":null},{"title":"Incautan más de 17 kilos de droga en la Unidad n°4 del INR","url":"https://noticiasc21.uy/incautan-mas-de-17-kilos-de-droga-en-la-unidad-n4-del-inr/","publisher":"NoticiasC21","date":"2026-08-25","archived":null},{"title":"Incautan más de 17 kilos de droga en la Unidad n°4 del INR","url":"https://mediospublicos.uy/incautan-mas-de-17-kilos-de-droga-en-la-unidad-n4-del-inr/","publisher":"Portal Medios Públicos","date":"2026-08-24","archived":null},{"title":"Incautan los celulares de dos militares de la guardia del Comcar, investigados por el ingreso de 17 kilos de droga","url":"https://nacion.com.uy/redaccion/comcar-celulares-incautados-dos-militares-investigados-ingreso-17-kilos-droga-guardia-perimetral-2026","publisher":"Nación UY","date":"2026-10-07","archived":null},{"title":"Se incautaron 17 kilos de droga en el ex Comcar","url":"https://ladiaria.com.uy/justicia/articulo/2026/8/se-incautaron-17-kilos-de-droga-en-el-ex-comcar/","publisher":"la diaria","date":"2026-08-24","archived":null},{"title":"La incautación de 17 kilos de droga en el ex Comcar podría destapar una red de corrupción","url":"https://www.xn--lamaana-7za.uy/actualidad/la-incautacion-de-17-kilos-de-droga-en-el-ex-comcar-podria-destapar-una-red-de-corrupcion/","publisher":"La Mañana","date":"2026-08-31","archived":null}]},{"id":"montevideo-sicilia-pcc-sentences","code":"CET-4QNR4S","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/montevideo-sicilia-pcc-sentences/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/4QNR4S/","date":"2026-08-17","added_at":"2026-10-30T13:51:48.000Z","added_at_source":"git","updated_at":"2026-11-09T17:43:08.000Z","country":"uy","country_name":"Uruguay","place":"raids in Montevideo, Canelones and Maldonado","coordinates":[-34.906,-56.191],"precision":"region","type":"sentence","also":[],"title":"Three Uruguayans sentenced over marijuana exports with Brazil's PCC","summary":"On 17 August 2026 prosecutors said three Uruguayan men had been sentenced, the longest term four years and four months, for exporting marijuana to Brazil with the Primeiro Comando da Capital. 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The counted drugs in the raids were 747 MDMA tablets, 40 grams of crystals and 356 grams of cocaine.","Only one news report of the sentences was opened.","The three sentences are different lengths; the report does not fold them into one prison figure.","The map point is Montevideo. The raids also covered Canelones and Maldonado, and a rural property in Canelones was confiscated.","El País shows a police photograph of the seizures, but its direct image address could not be retrieved, so it is not listed as media."],"sources":[{"title":"Fiscalía condenó a tres uruguayos que operaban en colaboración con el Primer Comando de la Capital de Brasil","url":"https://www.elpais.com.uy/informacion/judiciales/fiscalia-condeno-a-tres-uruguayos-que-operaban-en-colaboracion-con-el-primer-comando-de-la-capital-de-brasil","publisher":"El País","date":"2026-08-17","archived":null}]},{"id":"uruguay-canelones-montevideo-buds-sentence","code":"CET-M6E917","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/uruguay-canelones-montevideo-buds-sentence/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/M6E917/","date":"2026-06-29","added_at":"2026-11-01T10:13:56.000Z","added_at_source":"git","updated_at":"2026-11-06T23:29:35.000Z","country":"uy","country_name":"Uruguay","place":"Parque del Plata, Canelones, and La Unión, Montevideo, Uruguay","coordinates":[-34.7657,-55.7179],"precision":"locality","type":"sentence","also":["raid","prosecution"],"title":"Three sentenced over a cannabis-bud production circuit in Canelones and Montevideo","summary":"A court in Minas sentenced two men and a woman for producing and supplying cannabis buds from sites in Parque del Plata, Canelones, and La Unión, Montevideo. 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the ministry does not say when the sentence was handed down.","The ministry names three sentenced Brazilians while the May account reported four people detained; it does not say what happened to the fourth.","The two seizures are described with different substances and only their total is given: 350 kg of marijuana in Rocha and 132.31 kg of hashish in Montevideo, leaving no separate figure for the ministry's 482 kg total.","The ministry calls the Palermo substance compatible with hashish, while police in May confirmed hashish resin in the Rocha packages; laboratory identification is not published.","Telenoche reported the Palermo search and said the investigation led there from the Rocha arrests; the ministry gives no separate dates."],"sources":[{"title":"Brasileños detenidos en Uruguay con cargamento de hachís","url":"https://www.prensa-latina.cu/2025/05/27/brasilenos-detenidos-en-uruguay-con-cargamento-de-hachis/","publisher":"Prensa Latina","date":"2025-05-27","archived":null},{"title":"Condenan a tres brasileños tras la incautación de más de 480 kilos de droga en operativos en Rocha y Montevideo","url":"https://www.gub.uy/ministerio-interior/comunicacion/noticias/condenan-tres-brasilenos-tras-incautacion-480-kilos-droga-operativos-rocha","publisher":"Ministerio del Interior","date":"2025-07-21","archived":null}]},{"id":"montevideo-conciliacion-valldemosa-marijuana-labs-three-jailed","code":"CET-RQH05N","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/montevideo-conciliacion-valldemosa-marijuana-labs-three-jailed/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/RQH05N/","date":"2025-05-26","added_at":"2026-11-11T09:15:59.478539Z","added_at_source":"recorded","updated_at":null,"country":"uy","country_name":"Uruguay","place":"María Orticochea, Barrio Conciliación, Montevideo","coordinates":[-34.8128,-56.2286],"precision":"locality","type":"sentence","also":["raid","arrest","seizure","prosecution"],"title":"Three jailed after Montevideo raids find two marijuana labs in Operation Valldemosa","summary":"Police from Canelones and Montevideo raided three properties in the Conciliación neighbourhood under Operation Valldemosa, detaining six men and dismantling two marijuana processing laboratories. 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no gated text is used."],"sources":[{"title":"La Policía desarticuló un grupo criminal que ingresaba hachís desde Estados Unidos","url":"https://www.gub.uy/ministerio-interior/comunicacion/noticias/policia-desarticulo-grupo-criminal-ingresaba-hachis-desde-estados-unidos","publisher":"Ministerio del Interior","date":"2025-02-07","archived":null},{"title":"Operación Fortuna: 12 personas fueron imputadas por tráfico de hachís","url":"https://ladiaria.com.uy/justicia/articulo/2025/2/operacion-fortuna-12-personas-fueron-imputadas-por-trafico-de-hachis/","publisher":"la diaria","date":"2025-02-07","archived":null},{"title":"Incautaron 30 kilos de hachis que ingresaron al país por el Aeropuerto de Carrasco","url":"https://ladiaria.com.uy/justicia/articulo/2025/1/incautaron-30-kilos-de-hachis-que-ingresaron-al-pais-por-el-aeropuerto-de-carrasco/","publisher":"la diaria","date":"2025-01-31","archived":null}]},{"id":"acegua-42kg-marihuana-border-two-convicted-2025","code":"CET-ADGZ9E","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/acegua-42kg-marihuana-border-two-convicted-2025/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/ADGZ9E/","date":"2025-01-29","added_at":"2026-11-07T11:36:57.625138Z","added_at_source":"recorded","updated_at":"2026-11-09T17:43:08.000Z","country":"uy","country_name":"Uruguay","place":"Aceguá border area and Melo, Cerro Largo","coordinates":[-32.0667,-53.9833],"precision":"district","type":"seizure","also":["arrest","raid","sentence"],"title":"Two convicted after 42 kilos of marijuana seized at the Aceguá border","summary":"Cerro Largo police, tipped off by Brazil's Civil Police, seized 42.067 kilos of marijuana buds from a sheet-metal shelter near the Aceguá border on 29 January 2025. 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Two of the men fled across a private property and were caught on foot five kilometres away; the load was sent to the prosecutor's office for weighing and testing.","status":"verified","figures":{"arrested":3},"details":{"agency_types":["police"],"products":[{"product":"flower"}],"activity":["trafficking"],"setting":["vehicle"],"case_stage":"investigation","region":"Salto department"},"data_sources":{"details.activity":[1],"details.agency_types":[1],"details.case_stage":[1],"details.products":[1,2],"details.setting":[1],"figures.arrested":[1]},"tags":["salto","uruguay","marihuana","ruta-31","brazil-route"],"cover":null,"media":[{"kind":"photo","url":"https://www.gub.uy/ministerio-interior/comunicacion/noticias/operativo-antidrogas-salto-finalizo-tres-detenidos-gran-carga-droga-incautada","media_url":"https://www.gub.uy/ministerio-interior/sites/ministerio-interior/files/imagenes/noticias/f9253e6a-2494-4dac-9568-d95550d61a56.jpg","publisher":"Ministerio del Interior","caption":"Chevrolet Corsa stopped by police at the Ruta 31 checkpoint, captioned \"Auto interceptado\". 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Their charges, preventive measures or sentences are not reported.","The sources do not state a weighed value; La Prensa only called the load \"worth millions\" if sold at retail outlets.","The exact checkpoint lies in Salto department; the coordinates give the departmental centre because the sources name no town at the junction of Rutas 4 and 31.","Media links point to the Interior Ministry's own gallery, whose images are captioned only \"Procedimiento\" and \"Auto interceptado\".","The text gives a weight (\"500 kilograms\") but the figures have no kg_seized; check whether it belongs there.","El Observador gives no weight for the 209 packages and no further court outcome, so its account does not resolve the existing open questions about the load's weight or the detainees' charges."],"sources":[{"title":"Operativo antidrogas en Salto finalizó con tres detenidos y gran carga de droga incautada","url":"https://www.gub.uy/ministerio-interior/comunicacion/noticias/operativo-antidrogas-salto-finalizo-tres-detenidos-gran-carga-droga-incautada","publisher":"Ministerio del Interior","date":"2024-09-11","archived":null},{"title":"Exitoso operativo antidrogas / Tres detenidos y 209 bolsas de marihuana","url":"https://laprensa.com.uy/informaci%C3%B3n/policiales/exitoso-operativo-antidrogas-tres-detenidos-y-209-bolsas-de-marihuana","publisher":"Diario La Prensa","date":"2024-09-12","archived":null},{"title":"Operativo antidrogas en Salto: incautaron 209 paquetes de droga, que presumen es marihuana","url":"https://www.elobservador.com.uy/nacional/operativo-antidrogas-salto-incautaron-209-paquetes-droga-que-presumen-es-marihuana-n5960435","publisher":"El Observador","date":"2024-09-11","archived":"https://web.archive.org/web/20251017015559id_/https://www.elobservador.com.uy/nacional/operativo-antidrogas-salto-incautaron-209-paquetes-droga-que-presumen-es-marihuana-n5960435"}]},{"id":"rivera-manuel-diaz-139kg-paraguayans-sentenced","code":"CET-1Q0897","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/rivera-manuel-diaz-139kg-paraguayans-sentenced/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/1Q0897/","date":"2024-01-21","added_at":"2026-11-10T02:59:20.997588Z","added_at_source":"recorded","updated_at":null,"country":"uy","country_name":"Uruguay","place":"Pasaje de frontera Manuel Díaz (Ruta 5 km 463), límite entre Rivera y Tacuarembó, Uruguay","coordinates":[-31.7508,-55.3153],"precision":"locality","type":"seizure","also":["arrest","sentence"],"title":"Two Paraguayans jailed over 139 kg of pressed marijuana at Rivera border checkpoint","summary":"Rivera police stopped a Paraguayan-registered pickup at the Manuel Díaz crossing between Rivera and Tacuarembó on 21 January 2024 and found 139 kilograms of pressed marijuana hidden in the vehicle. 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the report uses the final figure and keeps 214 kg in the text.","The checkpoint is spelled Curtiseiras by Telenoche and Curticeiras by Subrayado and Teledoce.","Telenoche's sentencing report says the pair was detained 'this Monday', while its first report places the stop at about 23:00 on Sunday 3 April; the incident date uses the first account.","The value of three million pesos is an approximate police estimate and the article does not state whether it is Uruguayan or another peso.","The route through Paraguay and Brazil to Montevideo is reported as information the police were handling, not as an established finding.","No official police statement or court document could be opened; the accounts rest on Uruguayan television news reports.","Left out vehicles, as its quotation was not found in Subrayado."],"sources":[{"title":"Incautaron 214 kilos de marihuana dentro de una camioneta","url":"https://www.telenoche.com.uy/incautaron-214-kilos-marihuana-dentro-una-camioneta-n5327433","publisher":"Telenoche","date":"2022-04-04","archived":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260210034340id_/https://www.telenoche.com.uy/incautaron-214-kilos-marihuana-dentro-una-camioneta-n5327433"},{"title":"Detienen a una pareja paraguaya que transportaba 214 kilos de marihuana","url":"https://www.subrayado.com.uy/detienen-una-pareja-paraguaya-que-transportaba-214-kilos-marihuana-n855187","publisher":"Subrayado","date":"2022-04-04","archived":"https://web.archive.org/web/20250710234055id_/https://www.subrayado.com.uy/detienen-una-pareja-paraguaya-que-transportaba-214-kilos-marihuana-n855187"},{"title":"Condenaron a la pareja que intentó ingresar 214 kilos de marihuana","url":"https://www.telenoche.com.uy/sociedad/condenaron-la-pareja-que-intento-ingresar-214-kilos-marihuana-n5327508","publisher":"Telenoche","date":"2022-04-05","archived":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260212043335id_/https://www.telenoche.com.uy/sociedad/condenaron-la-pareja-que-intento-ingresar-214-kilos-marihuana-n5327508"},{"title":"Dos ciudadanos paraguayos fueron detenidos en Rivera con 214 kilos de marihuana ocultos en una camioneta","url":"https://www.teledoce.com/telemundo/policiales/dos-ciudadanos-paraguayos-fueron-detenidos-en-rivera-con-214-kilos-de-marihuana-ocultos-en-una-camioneta/","publisher":"Teledoce","date":"2022-04-04","archived":null}]},{"id":"maldonado-nuevo-house-15kg-109-plants-conviction","code":"CET-M11E89","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/maldonado-nuevo-house-15kg-109-plants-conviction/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/M11E89/","date":"2021-12-17","added_at":"2026-11-09T21:25:26.170416Z","added_at_source":"recorded","updated_at":"2026-11-10T06:28:33.000Z","country":"uy","country_name":"Uruguay","place":"Maldonado Nuevo, Maldonado","coordinates":[-34.9089,-54.9431],"precision":"locality","type":"seizure","also":["sentence"],"title":"Maldonado police seize 109 plants and over 15 kilos in a house; 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Officers intercepted three vehicles under Operation Ryguasu after an investigation running since September.","status":"verified","figures":{"kg_seized":1500},"details":{"agency_types":["police"],"products":[{"product":"flower","kg":1500}],"setting":["vehicle"],"case_stage":"investigation","route":{"from":["py"],"to":["uy"],"crossing":"land entry from Brazil"}},"data_sources":{"details.agency_types":[1],"details.case_stage":[1],"details.products":[1],"details.route":[1],"details.setting":[1],"figures.kg_seized":[1]},"tags":["trafficking","brazil-route"],"cover":null,"media":[{"kind":"photo","url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20220818111943/https://dialogo-americas.com/articles/uruguay-police-carries-out-record-seizure-of-marijuana/","media_url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20220818111943im_/https://dialogo-americas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/CN-URY-Marijuana-1500-kg.jpg","publisher":"Uruguayan Ministry of the Interior, via Diálogo Américas","caption":"The Interior Ministry's photograph of the record Rivera marijuana seizure"}],"cfi_id":null,"created_by_model":"muse-code/muse-spark-1.3#xhigh","open_questions":["Only one source could be opened directly; it cites the Interior Ministry's 23 November statement and El País and Montevideo Portal coverage that could not be reopened.","The exact interception date in mid-November is not stated; 23 November is the ministry's announcement date."],"sources":[{"title":"Uruguay: Police Carries out Record Seizure of Marijuana","url":"https://dialogo-americas.com/articles/uruguay-police-carries-out-record-seizure-of-marijuana/","publisher":"Diálogo Américas","date":"2021-12-23","archived":"https://web.archive.org/web/20220818111943/https://dialogo-americas.com/articles/uruguay-police-carries-out-record-seizure-of-marijuana/"}]},{"id":"rivera-138kg-three-procedures-october-2021","code":"CET-MF76CH","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/rivera-138kg-three-procedures-october-2021/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/MF76CH/","date":"2021-10-01","added_at":"2026-11-09T19:59:55.611169Z","added_at_source":"recorded","updated_at":"2026-11-10T06:28:33.000Z","country":"uy","country_name":"Uruguay","place":"Rivera, Rivera department, on the border with Santana do Livramento, Brazil","coordinates":[-30.906,-55.55],"precision":"locality","type":"seizure","also":["sentence","arrest"],"title":"Rivera seizures net 138 kg of marijuana; four sentenced, six detained","summary":"Uruguayan police and customs officers seized 138 kilograms of marijuana in three procedures around Rivera in late September and October 2021, two of them at the Curticeiras border post with Brazil. Four people were sentenced in the case, with prison terms of up to three years, and six were detained in all, including a prisoner whose home was searched.","status":"verified","figures":{"arrested":6,"kg_seized":138,"prison":"3 years; 2 years 8 months; 2 years; 24 months supervised release","sentenced":4},"details":{"agencies":["Jefatura de Policía de Rivera","Dirección General de Represión al Tráfico Ilícito de Drogas","Dirección Nacional de Aduanas"],"agency_types":["police","customs"],"products":[{"product":"flower","kg":138}],"activity":["trafficking","possession"],"setting":["vehicle","border","home"],"charges":["possession, transport and importation of banned narcotics","assistance to criminal activity","transport of banned narcotics","aggravated distribution of banned narcotics"],"case_stage":"sentenced","sentence_types":["prison","probation"],"force":["none-reported"],"region":"Rivera"},"data_sources":{"details.activity":[1],"details.agencies":[1],"details.agency_types":[1],"details.case_stage":[1],"details.charges":[1],"details.force":[1],"details.products":[1],"details.sentence_types":[1],"details.setting":[1],"figures.arrested":[2],"figures.kg_seized":[1],"figures.prison":[1],"figures.sentenced":[1]},"tags":["rivera","uruguay","operation-ryguasu","border","trafficking"],"cover":null,"media":[],"cfi_id":null,"created_by_model":"swancloud/muse-spark-1.3-contributor#xhigh","open_questions":["The article gives no separate day for the three procedures; 1 October 2021 is its publication date and stands in for the incident date.","Infobae, published on 4 October 2021, gives the same 138 kilograms and six detainees but no dated police statement was opened.","The imprisoned man's court appearance was still pending when the article was published, so his outcome is unknown.","Operation Ryguasu was also the name given to a larger Rivera operation that seized about 1.5 tonnes in November 2021, recorded in a separate report; whether the organisation behind both is the same was not established.","The source does not say whether the four people detained in Brazil were tried there, in Uruguay or not at all.","Part of the passenger's load was pasta base, a cocaine product; it is not counted as cannabis.","No estimate of the marijuana's value was published."],"sources":[{"title":"Incautaron 138 kilos de marihuana en tres procedimientos en Rivera","url":"https://www.telenoche.com.uy/nacionales/incautaron-138-kilos-de-marihuana-en-tres-procedimientos-en-rivera","publisher":"Telenoche","date":"2021-10-01","archived":"https://web.archive.org/web/20211003033152id_/https://telenoche.com.uy/nacionales/incautaron-138-kilos-de-marihuana-en-tres-procedimientos-en-rivera"},{"title":"Incautaron 138 kilos de marihuana en la frontera entre Uruguay y Brasil","url":"https://www.infobae.com/america/america-latina/2021/10/04/incautaron-138-kilos-de-marihuana-en-la-frontera-entre-uruguay-y-brasil/","publisher":"Infobae","date":"2021-10-04","archived":null}]},{"id":"aigua-la-coronilla-746-plants-2021","code":"CET-REEAQK","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/aigua-la-coronilla-746-plants-2021/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/REEAQK/","date":"2021-02-20","added_at":"2026-11-09T11:30:07.876157Z","added_at_source":"recorded","updated_at":null,"country":"uy","country_name":"Uruguay","place":"Paraje La Coronilla, near Aiguá, Maldonado","coordinates":[-34.2083,-54.7528],"precision":"locality","type":"raid","also":["seizure","arrest","prosecution"],"title":"746 cannabis plants seized on three properties near Aiguá; five held","summary":"Maldonado's anti-drug brigade searched three rural properties at Paraje La Coronilla near Aiguá and seized 746 marijuana plants, 3.24 kg of buds and 8.431 kg of drying plants valued by the ministry at 1.1 million pesos. Four people were detained at the properties and a fifth in San Carlos; three were charged with drug production and two were held in preventive detention.","status":"verified","figures":{"arrested":5,"charged":3,"plants_destroyed":746,"value":{"amount":1100000,"currency":"UYU"}},"details":{"agencies":["Brigada Departamental Antidrogas de Maldonado","Instituto de Regulación y Control del Cannabis (IRCCA)","Fiscalía de 2º turno de San Carlos"],"agency_types":["police","anti-narcotics","regulator","prosecutor"],"products":[{"product":"plants","plants":746}],"activity":["cultivation","processing","possession"],"setting":["field","building"],"environment":["greenhouse"],"charges":["producción de sustancias estupefacientes en reiteración real","tenencia no para consumo"],"case_stage":"charged","period":{"start":"2020-09-01T00:00:00.000Z","end":"2021-02-19T00:00:00.000Z"},"region":"Maldonado"},"data_sources":{"details.activity":[1],"details.agencies":[1],"details.agency_types":[1],"details.case_stage":[1],"details.charges":[1],"details.environment":[1],"details.period":[1],"details.products":[1],"details.setting":[1],"figures.arrested":[1],"figures.charged":[1],"figures.plants_destroyed":[1],"figures.value":[1]},"tags":["maldonado","aigua","ircca","uruguay","greenhouses"],"cover":null,"media":[{"kind":"photo","url":"https://www.gub.uy/ministerio-interior/comunicacion/noticias/se-incautaron-746-plantas-marihuana-maldonado","media_url":"https://www.gub.uy/ministerio-interior/sites/ministerio-interior/files/styles/documento/public/imagenes/noticias/Incautacion%20marihuana_clipdrop-enhance.png?itok=M6OwiBly","publisher":"Ministerio del Interior","caption":"Police handout image of a cannabis crop, published with the Interior Ministry's report on the seizure in Paraje La Coronilla. Photo: Ministerio del Interior, Uruguay"}],"cfi_id":null,"created_by_model":"swancloud/muse-spark-1.3-contributor#xhigh","open_questions":["The ministry gives no single date for the searches; FM Gente reports the court hearing on Friday 19 February 2021, so 20 February 2021 is used as an approximate incident date.","No figure for the area of the three properties in hectares was published.","The value of 1,100,000 Uruguayan pesos is the Interior Ministry's own market estimate and covers the plants, buds and drying material together.","Of the five people detained, the ministry does not say which four were held at the properties; the woman detained in San Carlos is not identified in any source as one of the three charged.","No trial outcome or sentence for the three charged men was reported.","The plant figure of 746 excludes the eight plants found in the San Carlos house, which the ministry describes separately.","Both cited outlets carry the ministry's release text, so the accounts are not independent; FM Gente's court detail is the main addition.","Correo de Punta del Este also carries the same ministry text but with an unrelated caption about a defence argument, so it is not cited; a Maldonado Noticias version could not be captured for citation.","The text gives a weight (\"3.24 kg\") but the figures have no kg_seized; check whether it belongs there."],"sources":[{"title":"Se incautaron 746 plantas de marihuana en Maldonado","url":"https://www.gub.uy/ministerio-interior/comunicacion/noticias/se-incautaron-746-plantas-marihuana-maldonado","publisher":"Ministerio del Interior","date":"2021-02-23","archived":null},{"title":"Incautaron 746 plantas de marihuana y 12 kilos de cogollos por valor de más de 1 millón de pesos en Sierras de Aiguá","url":"https://www.fmgente.com.uy/noticias/incautaron-plantas-marihuana-kilos-cogollos-57306.html","publisher":"FM Gente","date":"2021-02-20","archived":null}]},{"id":"canelones-villa-arejo-four-raids-70-plants-three-held","code":"CET-V1RBHJ","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/canelones-villa-arejo-four-raids-70-plants-three-held/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/V1RBHJ/","date":"2020-11-30","added_at":"2026-11-09T21:32:31.282677Z","added_at_source":"recorded","updated_at":"2026-11-10T06:28:33.000Z","country":"uy","country_name":"Uruguay","place":"Villa Villarejo (Villa Arejo), Ruta 32, Canelones department","coordinates":[-34.5956,-56.1686],"precision":"locality","type":"raid","also":["seizure","arrest"],"title":"Three held and 70 cannabis plants seized in four raids at Villa Arejo, Canelones","summary":"Canelones police carried out four raids at Villa Villarejo, known as Villa Arejo, on 30 November 2020 and detained three people, including the man they called the suspected head of the group. Officers found more than 70 marijuana plants in three greenhouses and seized a pistol, a sawn-off shotgun and 9,000 pesos in cash.","status":"verified","figures":{"arrested":3,"plants_destroyed":70},"details":{"agencies":["Jefatura de Policía de Canelones","Fiscalía de Canelones"],"agency_types":["police","prosecutor"],"products":[{"product":"plants","plants":70}],"activity":["cultivation","possession","sale"],"setting":["home","field"],"environment":["greenhouse"],"case_stage":"investigation","force":["none-reported"],"date_precision":"exact","region":"Canelones"},"data_sources":{"details.activity":[3],"details.agencies":[2],"details.agency_types":[2],"details.case_stage":[2],"details.environment":[1],"details.force":[2],"details.products":[4],"details.setting":[1],"figures.arrested":[3],"figures.plants_destroyed":[1]},"tags":["canelones","uruguay","invernadero","allanamientos","villa-arejo"],"cover":null,"media":[],"cfi_id":null,"created_by_model":"swancloud/muse-spark-1.3-contributor#xhigh","open_questions":["The submitted Subrayado article says only that several people were detained and does not give the figure of three, which comes from Teledoce, Telenoche and Hoy Canelones.","No exact count of plants was published: Subrayado, Hoy Canelones and Telenoche give 'more than 70', while Trezza's own breakdown of about 40, 20 and 12 plants adds up to roughly 72.","No weight of seized cannabis, no measured area and no value estimate were published.","The sources do not say whether the plants were uprooted, confiscated or destroyed, or what happened to them after the operation.","No charges, court outcome or preventive measures for the three detainees are reported; they were to be brought before prosecutor Mónica Castro.","The fourth suspect being sought is not reported as arrested in the accessible coverage.","Subrayado says the firearms were seized without giving details; Telenoche quotes Trezza as saying one pistol and two shotguns were found, and Hoy Canelones lists a .22 pistol and a sawn-off shotgun, so the third firearm is not reconciled.","The cash figure of 9,000 pesos is given by Hoy Canelones only, while Teledoce says money in small notes was seized without an amount.","Telenoche gives the distance from Canelones city as 17 kilometres, while Hoy Canelones says 16; coordinates are those of the Villa Arejo locality, not the exact searched properties.","The Telenoche article was read in the Wayback Machine capture of 30 November 2020 because the live page refused access."],"sources":[{"title":"Cuatro allanamientos en Canelones; incautaron armas de fuego y 70 plantas de marihuana","url":"https://www.subrayado.com.uy/cuatro-allanamientos-canelones-incautaron-armas-fuego-y-70-plantas-marihuana-n694822","publisher":"Subrayado","date":"2020-11-30","archived":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260412001517id_/https://www.subrayado.com.uy/cuatro-allanamientos-canelones-incautaron-armas-fuego-y-70-plantas-marihuana-n694822"},{"title":"Operativo policial en Villa Arejo, en Canelones: fueron detenidas tres personas y se incautaron armas y drogas","url":"https://www.teledoce.com/telemundo/policiales/operativo-policial-en-villa-arejo-en-canelones-fueron-detenidas-tres-personas-y-se-incautaron-armas-y-drogas/","publisher":"Teledoce.com","date":"2020-11-30","archived":null},{"title":"Policía incautó más de setenta plantas de marihuana en Villa Villarejo, cerca de la ciudad de Canelones","url":"https://hoycanelones.com.uy/?p=37444","publisher":"Hoy Canelones","date":"2020-12-01","archived":null},{"title":"Detuvieron a tres personas en operativo antidrogas en Canelones","url":"https://www.telenoche.com.uy/nacionales/detuvieron-a-tres-personas-en-operativo-antidrogas","publisher":"Telenoche (Canal 4)","date":"2020-11-30","archived":"https://web.archive.org/web/20201130153821id_/https://www.telenoche.com.uy/nacionales/detuvieron-a-tres-personas-en-operativo-antidrogas"}]},{"id":"paysandu-patriarca-tonne-marijuana-2020","code":"CET-W6SJBW","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/paysandu-patriarca-tonne-marijuana-2020/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/W6SJBW/","date":"2020-09-17","added_at":"2026-11-09T21:29:16.233456Z","added_at_source":"recorded","updated_at":null,"country":"uy","country_name":"Uruguay","place":"Northern Paysandú department, Paysandú, Uruguay","coordinates":[-31.3833,-57.4833],"precision":"district","type":"seizure","also":["raid","arrest","sentence"],"title":"1.1 tonnes of marijuana seized on a Paysandú estate; three held, two sentenced","summary":"Uruguay's Anti-Drug Brigade raided a rural estate in northern Paysandú department in September 2020 and seized 1,103.2 kg of marijuana, along with 40 kg of cannabis seeds and two pickups. A 28-year-old man was jailed for 2 years and 10 months, a 32-year-old woman received 20 months under supervised release, and a 40-year-old man was freed.","status":"verified","figures":{"arrested":3,"charged":2,"kg_seized":1104.268,"prison":"2 years and 10 months","sentenced":2},"details":{"agencies":["Brigada Antidrogas de la Policía Departamental de Paysandú"],"agency_types":["police","court"],"products":[{"product":"flower","kg":1104.268},{"product":"seeds","kg":40}],"activity":["possession","sale"],"setting":["farm","home"],"charges":["delito continuado de tráfico de sustancias estupefacientes prohibidas en la modalidad de negociación"],"case_stage":"sentenced","sentence_types":["prison","probation"],"date_precision":"exact","region":"Paysandú"},"data_sources":{"details.activity":[1],"details.agencies":[1],"details.agency_types":[1,2],"details.case_stage":[1],"details.charges":[1],"details.products":[1],"details.sentence_types":[1],"details.setting":[1],"figures.arrested":[1],"figures.charged":[1],"figures.kg_seized":[1],"figures.prison":[1],"figures.sentenced":[1]},"tags":["paysandu","uruguay","brigada-antidrogas","operation-patriarca","seeds"],"cover":null,"media":[{"kind":"photo","url":"https://www.lr21.com.uy/comunidad/1434933-dos-personas-formalizadas-tras-incautacion-de-una-tonelada-de-marihuana-en-paysandu","media_url":"https://www.lr21.com.uy/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/marihuana-incautación-paysandú.jpg","publisher":"la diaria — LARED21","caption":"Photo published with the report on the Paysandú seizure and captioned by the publisher as a photo of the Paysandú police headquarters. Photo: Jefatura de Policía de Paysandú"}],"cfi_id":null,"created_by_model":"swancloud/muse-spark-1.3-contributor#xhigh","open_questions":["Subrayado gives the weight found on the estate as exactly 1,103.2 kg, while la diaria rounds it to 1,103 kilos; the precise figure is used.","The kg_seized total adds the 1,103.2 kg of marijuana, 1 kg of pressed marijuana and 68 grams of buds that both accounts list separately; the 40 kg of seeds are recorded as a seed product and left out of the weight.","The sources say the seizure happened 'in recent hours' and 'this Thursday'; 17 September 2020 is the Thursday before the 18 September 2020 publication dates.","The two accounts place the second search differently: Subrayado in a home in the east of Paysandú, la diaria in a dwelling in the same northern locality as the estate, so the precise location of the 28-year-old's arrest is uncertain.","The 40-year-old was released and left 'emplazado', meaning summoned to appear before the court if required; no charge against him is stated.","The 32-year-old's 20 months are described as prison to be served under libertad vigilada, which in Uruguay is a supervised conditional sentence rather than ordinary custody; only the 28-year-old is recorded as given a penitentiary term.","Neither account gives the estate's exact location or area, a street value for the marijuana, or whether the material was burned; la diaria's mention of a 'same locality' to the north is not precise enough for a coordinates entry.","The Subrayado photo address could not be linked directly because the live page refused access, and the only direct image address recovered is the la diaria one captioned as the Paysandú police headquarters, which is not confirmed to show the seized marijuana.","Both accounts appear to draw on the same Paysandú police and court release; la diaria's text is the fuller second account but does not add an independent statement."],"sources":[{"title":"Incautaron una tonelada de marihuana en Paysandú; dos personas formalizadas","url":"https://www.subrayado.com.uy/incautaron-una-tonelada-marihuana-paysandu-dos-personas-formalizadas-n668740","publisher":"Subrayado","date":"2020-09-18","archived":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260517150134id_/https://www.subrayado.com.uy/incautaron-una-tonelada-marihuana-paysandu-dos-personas-formalizadas-n668740"},{"title":"Dos personas formalizadas tras incautación de una tonelada de marihuana en Paysandú","url":"https://www.lr21.com.uy/comunidad/1434933-dos-personas-formalizadas-tras-incautacion-de-una-tonelada-de-marihuana-en-paysandu","publisher":"la diaria — LARED21","date":"2020-09-18","archived":"https://web.archive.org/web/20221129002251id_/https://www.lr21.com.uy/comunidad/1434933-dos-personas-formalizadas-tras-incautacion-de-una-tonelada-de-marihuana-en-paysandu"}]},{"id":"rivera-arroyo-sauzal-greenhouse-380-plants-2020","code":"CET-S39M8D","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/rivera-arroyo-sauzal-greenhouse-380-plants-2020/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/S39M8D/","date":"2020-04-23","added_at":"2026-11-09T15:48:37.302158Z","added_at_source":"recorded","updated_at":null,"country":"uy","country_name":"Uruguay","place":"Arroyo Sauzal, rural Rivera department","coordinates":[-30.9,-55.55],"precision":"district","type":"raid","also":["seizure"],"title":"380 cannabis plants seized from a hidden greenhouse in rural Rivera","summary":"Police in Rivera department dismantled a clandestine cannabis greenhouse on rural land at Arroyo Sauzal and seized the plants inside after neighbours reported strangers entering the plot. Nobody was arrested; three people fled as officers arrived, and investigators said the landowner had rented the plot to others and the person behind the crop was identified and requested by the courts.","status":"reported","figures":{"arrested":0,"plants_destroyed":380,"sites":1},"details":{"agencies":["División Especializada en Materia de Delitos Complejos de la Policía de Rivera","Fiscalía de Rivera"],"agency_types":["police","prosecutor"],"products":[{"product":"plants","plants":380}],"activity":["cultivation"],"setting":["field"],"environment":["greenhouse"],"case_stage":"investigation","force":["none-reported"],"date_precision":"exact","region":"Rivera"},"data_sources":{"details.activity":[3],"details.agencies":[3],"details.agency_types":[3],"details.case_stage":[3],"details.environment":[3],"details.force":[1],"details.products":[3],"details.setting":[1],"figures.arrested":[1],"figures.plants_destroyed":[3],"figures.sites":[3]},"tags":["rivera","uruguay","invernadero","cannabis-plantation","delitos-complejos"],"cover":null,"media":[{"kind":"photo","url":"https://www.aplateia.com.br/2020/04/desarticulan-laboratorio-clandestino-de-marihuana/","media_url":"https://www.aplateia.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/EP31-MARIHUANA-2.jpg","publisher":"Jornal A Plateia","caption":"Cannabis plants seized from the clandestine greenhouse in Arroyo Sauzal, in a photo published with A Plateia's report. Photo: Wáshington Pereira / A Plateia"},{"kind":"photo","url":"https://www.aplateia.com.br/2020/04/desarticulan-laboratorio-clandestino-de-marihuana/","media_url":"https://www.aplateia.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/EP31-MARIHUANA-3-1024x574.jpg","publisher":"Jornal A Plateia","caption":"The clandestine cannabis greenhouse in Arroyo Sauzal, Rivera, photographed during the police operation. Photo: A Plateia"},{"kind":"photo","url":"https://www.subrayado.com.uy/incautan-mas-300-plantas-marihuana-una-zona-rural-rivera-n622911","media_url":"https://media.subrayado.com.uy/p/3e32464e3f8f712f4cf755bd8dd3ffcb/adjuntos/230/imagenes/002/589/0002589911/658x425/smart/img-20200424-wa0000jpg.jpg","publisher":"Subrayado","caption":"Photo captioned IMG-20200424-WA0000.jpg, published with Subrayado's report on the greenhouse found in Arroyo Sauzal, Rivera, the day after the raid."},{"kind":"photo","url":"https://www.teledoce.com/telemundo/policiales/se-incautaron-mas-de-300-plantas-de-marihuana-de-una-zona-rural-del-departamento-de-rivera/","media_url":"https://www.teledoce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/marihuana-rivera.jpg","publisher":"Teledoce.com","caption":"The lead image published with Teledoce's report on the 340 cannabis plants seized in a nursery in the Cuchilla Negra area of Rivera department."}],"cfi_id":null,"created_by_model":"swancloud/muse-spark-1.3-contributor#xhigh","open_questions":["The sources give no date for the event; 23 April 2020 comes from A Plateia, while Teledoce and Subrayado simply published the news on 24 April.","A Plateia counted 380 cannabis plants and Teledoce 340; this report uses 380 from the account that records the prosecutor's confirmation, and the lower figure is noted in the text.","Teledoce places the site in the Cuchilla Negra area on the road known as Subida de la Diligencia, while Subrayado and A Plateia place it in the Arroyo Sauzal area; the report uses Arroyo Sauzal and the exact site is unresolved.","Subrayado says three people fled the property; Teledoce says nobody was detained and does not mention anyone fleeing.","The 380 plants were counted inside the greenhouse; whether they were later destroyed or removed is not reported.","No weight of seized cannabis, value estimate or field area was published.","No outcome of the case was reported: the person behind the crop was only described as identified and requested by the courts.","Police and the prosecutor are quoted by local media but the Interior Ministry's own statement could not be located or opened.","A Plateia is a Rivera border-town paper publishing in Spanish, and it is the only source that gives the raid date and the prosecutor's name.","A Plateia also lists a shotgun, cartridges, a knife, a phone and a television among the seized effects; no separate weapons charge is reported.","Incautan más de 300 plantas de marihuana en una zona rural de Rivera (Subrayado) could not be opened again to check its quotations (access challenge: Cloudflare blocked access to the article; archived fallback unavailable (Wayback availability answered HTTP 429). No AI research was started); what it says is as the AI read it."],"sources":[{"title":"Se incautaron más de 300 plantas de marihuana de una zona rural del departamento de Rivera","url":"https://www.teledoce.com/telemundo/policiales/se-incautaron-mas-de-300-plantas-de-marihuana-de-una-zona-rural-del-departamento-de-rivera/","publisher":"Teledoce.com","date":"2020-04-24","archived":null},{"title":"Incautan más de 300 plantas de marihuana en una zona rural de Rivera","url":"https://www.subrayado.com.uy/incautan-mas-300-plantas-marihuana-una-zona-rural-rivera-n622911","publisher":"Subrayado","date":"2020-04-24","archived":null},{"title":"Desarticulan laboratorio clandestino de marihuana","url":"https://www.aplateia.com.br/2020/04/desarticulan-laboratorio-clandestino-de-marihuana/","publisher":"Jornal A Plateia","date":"2020-04-26","archived":null}]},{"id":"uruguay-594kg-marijuana-1043-plants-2017","code":"CET-FE7RBG","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/uruguay-594kg-marijuana-1043-plants-2017/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/FE7RBG/","date":"2017-03-22","added_at":"2026-11-11T17:45:43.77948Z","added_at_source":"recorded","updated_at":null,"country":"uy","country_name":"Uruguay","place":"Uruguay (nationwide operations)","coordinates":[-32.5228,-55.7658],"precision":"country","type":"seizure","also":["arrest","prosecution"],"title":"Uruguay seized 594 kg of marijuana and 1,043 plants in early 2017","summary":"Uruguay's anti-drug directorate reported that nationwide operations between 1 January and 22 March 2017 seized 594,472 grams of marijuana, 1,043 cannabis plants and 350 grams of cannabis seeds. More than 700 people were detained over drug-trafficking offences and more than 100 were sent for prosecution.","status":"verified","figures":{"arrested":700,"charged":100,"kg_seized":594.472,"plants_destroyed":1043},"details":{"agencies":["Dirección General de Represión al Tráfico Ilícito de Drogas (DGRTID)"],"agency_types":["anti-narcotics"],"products":[{"product":"flower","kg":594.472},{"product":"plants","plants":1043},{"product":"seeds","kg":0.35}],"activity":["trafficking"],"setting":["border"],"case_stage":"charged","period":{"start":"2017-01-01T00:00:00.000Z","end":"2017-03-22T00:00:00.000Z"},"date_precision":"exact","region":"Uruguay"},"data_sources":{"details.activity":[2],"details.agencies":[1],"details.agency_types":[1],"details.case_stage":[2],"details.period":[1],"details.products":[1],"details.setting":[1],"figures.arrested":[2],"figures.charged":[2],"figures.kg_seized":[1],"figures.plants_destroyed":[1]},"tags":["uruguay","marihuana","dgrtid","antidrogas","incautaciones"],"cover":null,"media":[],"cfi_id":null,"created_by_model":"swancloud/muse-spark-1.3-contributor#xhigh","open_questions":["The detained and prosecuted figures of more than 700 and more than 100 people cover all drug offences in the period, not cannabis alone.","The figures are a running total for 1 January to 22 March 2017 rather than a single day's seizures, so the incident date is the last day of the reporting period.","No individual operation, arrest or court case behind these totals is identified, and no court outcome for any of the people detained was reported.","Both accounts draw on the same Interior Ministry statement, so the report rests on one official source republished by two outlets."],"sources":[{"title":"Autoridades incautaron casi 600 kilos de marihuana en lo que va del año","url":"https://www.teledoce.com/telemundo/policiales/autoridades-incautaron-casi-600-kilos-de-marihuana-en-lo-que-va-del-ano/","publisher":"Teledoce.com","date":"2017-03-23","archived":null},{"title":"Más de media tonelada de marihuana incautada","url":"https://www.agesor.com.uy/noticia.php?id=29178","publisher":"AGESOR","date":"2017-03-25","archived":null}]},{"id":"paysandu-artigas-bridge-30g-seizure-2012","code":"CET-THKHDK","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/paysandu-artigas-bridge-30g-seizure-2012/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/THKHDK/","date":"2012-12-28","added_at":"2026-11-05T20:33:24.471585Z","added_at_source":"recorded","updated_at":"2026-11-06T23:29:51.000Z","country":"uy","country_name":"Uruguay","place":"Área de Control Integrado del puente internacional Gral. 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The two men and a 15-year-old boy in the car were placed at the disposal of a Paysandú judge, who referred the matter to the Narcotics Brigade.","status":"verified","figures":{"arrested":3,"kg_seized":0.03},"details":{"agency_types":["customs"],"products":[{"product":"flower","kg":0.03}],"case_stage":"investigation","date_precision":"exact"},"data_sources":{"details.agency_types":[1],"details.case_stage":[1],"details.date_precision":[1],"details.products":[1],"figures.kg_seized":[1]},"tags":["paysandu","customs","border"],"cover":null,"media":[{"kind":"photo","url":"https://www.aduanas.gub.uy/innovaportal/v/10541/14/innova.front/incautacion-de-marihuana-en-paysandu.html","media_url":"https://www.aduanas.gub.uy/innovaportal/file/10541/1/p1030167.jpg","publisher":"Dirección Nacional de Aduanas","caption":"Photos published with the customs report on the Paysandú marijuana seizure."},{"kind":"photo","url":"https://www.aduanas.gub.uy/innovaportal/v/10541/14/innova.front/incautacion-de-marihuana-en-paysandu.html","media_url":"https://www.aduanas.gub.uy/innovaportal/file/10541/1/p1030164.jpg","publisher":"Dirección Nacional de Aduanas","caption":"Photos published with the customs report on the Paysandú marijuana seizure."}],"cfi_id":null,"created_by_model":"opencode-go/muse-spark-1.3-contributor#xhigh","open_questions":["The article dates the control only as the morning of Friday 28; 28 December 2012 is used because the page is dated 31/12/2012 and that 28 December was a Friday.","It is unclear whether the one gram found in the adolescent's grinder is included in the reported 30-gram total or additional to it.","No court outcome beyond referral to the Narcotics Brigade was reported.","Only the customs agency's account could be opened; no independent second report of this 2012 seizure was found."],"sources":[{"title":"Incautación de marihuana en Paysandú","url":"https://www.aduanas.gub.uy/innovaportal/v/10541/14/innova.front/incautacion-de-marihuana-en-paysandu.html","publisher":"Dirección Nacional de Aduanas","date":"2012-12-31","archived":null}]}]}