Federal Police burn 135,000 cannabis plants on a Sonora ejido plot
Federal Police officers burned about 135,000 marijuana plants on a roughly 9,000-square-metre irrigated plot near El Cajón del Sabino, in the municipality of Álamos, Sonora, which they valued at about 54 tonnes. No arrests were reported; the officers took samples for the federal investigation and the Security Secretariat announced the result in bulletin 124/19 on 7 February 2019.
🇲🇽 Ejido El Cajón del Sabino, Álamos, Sonora · Mexico
Plants destroyed
135,000
Area
0.9 ha
Cannabis
54 t
Agency
Policía Federal (Divisiones de Seguridad Regional y Fuerzas Federales)
Federal Police officers from the Regional Security and Federal Forces divisions
located and destroyed about 54 tonnes of suspected marijuana grown on a
plantation in the municipality of Álamos, Sonora.[1]Desk and field
investigations and tactical overflights led the officers to the crop near the
ejido El Cajón del Sabino, where they deployed an operation on the ground.[1]The officers drove about 40 kilometres along a dirt track to reach an irregular
plot about 150 metres long and 60 metres wide, roughly 9,000 square metres in
area, planted with green plants with the characteristics of marijuana and fitted
with an irrigation system.[1]
The federal officers cut the plants by hand and then burned about 135,000 of
them.[1]After destroying the crop, the officers took representative samples
and handed them to the competent authority to continue the investigation.[1]The account is the Security Secretariat’s bulletin 124/19, published as a
statement on 7 February 2019, and it names no arrests.[1]
Quadratín México republished the same bulletin on 7 February 2019, with the 54
tonnes, the 9,000 square metres and the 135,000 plants.[2]
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Source: Secretaría de Seguridad y Protección CiudadanaPhotograph credited to SSPC, the Security Secretariat, published with Quadratín's report on the Álamos eradication; it carries no descriptive caption.Photo details
The bulletin gives no separate date for the operation; 7 February 2019 is the date of the statement and is used as the incident date.
The 54 tonnes is the police's own estimate of the destroyed plants, described as 'aparente marihuana' and not weighed or laboratory-confirmed in the reports.
The 135,000 plant count and the 9,000-square-metre area are approximations ('alrededor', 'aproximada') given by the Federal Police.
No arrests, charges or court outcome are reported; the bulletin only says samples went to the corresponding authority.
Other Federal Police eradications in Álamos in February 2019 are reported separately (a plot of about 234,000 plants near the ejido La Mina, and two plots of about 195,000 plants near Agua Caliente de Antelo); they are different sites and are left out of this report.
The photographs carry no descriptive captions or credits, so it cannot be confirmed exactly which plants or field they show.
Radio Sonora's 11 February 2019 report, when opened, gave a different site, plot size and plant count, so it was not used as a source for this event and may not describe the same eradication.
Jalisco state police found a marijuana plot near the El Salvador delegation in Tequila and destroyed about 83,200 cannabis plants by uprooting and burning them. The FGR opened a health-crimes investigation and kept the case open, reporting no detentions.
On 25 October 2026 Jalisco state police, with Defence and National Guard support, found two marijuana plots and a drying shed at San Martín de las Cañas in Tequila, destroyed about 98,000 plants on 22,880 square metres, and valued the crop at 102.9 million pesos.
Mexican navy personnel found and destroyed about 56,000 suspected marijuana plants on five plots covering more than 6,000 square metres in La Yesca, Nayarit, during patrols on 23 and 24 October. The navy did not report any arrests.
On 20, 21 and 22 October 2026 the Mexican navy and the army destroyed about 122,400 marijuana plants on eight plots covering about 14,880 square metres near La Yesca, Nayarit. The statements report no arrests. A separate five-plot destruction in the same municipality on 23 and 24 October is a different event.
