Aguas Verdes: trailer with 590 brick packages of marijuana bound for Chile
In the early hours of 1 April 2026 police at the binational border centre in Aguas Verdes, Tumbes, found 590 one-kilogram brick packages of marijuana hidden in a truck and trailer driven by Ecuadorian Ángel Bolívar Pinto Rosero, 33. Field tests were positive; the load was valued at about US$1.18 million and was reported bound for Chile via Peru from Colombia.
🇵🇪 CEBAF Aguas Verdes, Zarumilla, Tumbes · Peru
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Arrested
1
Cannabis
590 kg
Value (official estimate)
USD 1,180,000
In the early hours of 1 April 2026, anti-drug officers from the Tumbes AREANDRO
unit, with customs, stopped Ecuadorian driver Ángel Bolívar Pinto Rosero, 33, at
the Peruvian side of the Binational Border Attention Centre (CEBAF) in Aguas
Verdes, Zarumilla, Tumbes.[1][2]
He was at the wheel of cargo truck D2I-924 towing semitrailer TLB-975.[1]Officers found 590 brick-shaped packages, each weighing about one kilogram, of
material consistent with Cannabis sativa; a Detect 4 Drugs field test was
positive for marijuana.[1][2]Infobae, citing regional police chief Luis
Enrique Pacheco Cornejo through Latina Noticias, describes the load as more than
700 kg hidden in adapted compartments of the cab and sleeper, valued above one
million soles and destined for Chile after transit from Colombia.[2]
Andina puts the illegal-market value at about US$1,180,000.[1]The driver
remained silent and the cargo was handed to prosecutors specialising in drug
trafficking.[1][2]
Photos and video
Thumbnail photograph published with Agencia Andina's account of the CEBAF seizure. Source: Agencia Andina
Infobae and regional police statements describe more than 700 kg while Andina counts 590 one-kilogram bricks; the total weight opened in both sources is not given as a single precise figure.
Infobae relays General Luis Enrique Pacheco Cornejo via Latina Noticias; Andina gives the driver's full name and vehicle plates without repeating every compartment detail from the TV report.
No separate government press release beyond Andina and the news relay was opened.
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