Three sentenced in Andacollo-Coquimbo drug ring; top term over 28 years
La Serena's oral criminal court sentenced three people for drug trafficking and cannabis cultivation from homes in Tierras Blancas, Coquimbo and parcels in El Manzano, Andacollo. The main defendant received more than 28 years in prison after investigators found over 69 kg of cannabis, cocaine and firearms, while two others received eight years each.
🇨🇱 Tierras Blancas, Coquimbo and El Manzano, Andacollo · Chile
Sentenced
3
Cannabis
69 kg
Prison
more than 28 years
Agencies
Fiscalía de Alta Complejidad de la Región de Coquimbo, 🇨🇱PDI +1
The Oral Criminal Court of La Serena convicted three people for drug trafficking
and related offences tied to homes they used in Coquimbo and Andacollo.[1]The
case was led by the Coquimbo High Complexity Prosecutor’s Office through its
criminal-analysis system together with the PDI’s anti-narcotics and
organised-crime brigade.[1]Prosecutors said that between 2024 and March 2025
the group used homes in Tierras Blancas and two parcels in El Manzano,
Andacollo, to store and sell drugs.[1]
Investigators found the main defendant holding more than six kilos of cocaine,
more than 69 kilos of cannabis and a cannabis crop inside one of the properties
he used.[1]Officers also found three pistols, a revolver and three carbines
or shotguns, along with ammunition of various calibres.[1]Seized items
included live cannabis plants, plants being dried and bulk cannabis, as well as
cocaine and cocaine base, with indoor growing systems present.[1]Police also
seized mobile phones, a bulletproof vest, shotgun cartridges, weapon parts, five
air rifles, a drone and a press used for THC extraction.[1]
Two defendants each received eight years of imprisonment for drug trafficking
and cannabis cultivation.[1]The third defendant received more than 28 years
of effective imprisonment for drug trafficking, cannabis cultivation and
firearms and ammunition offences, which the court ordered to be served
effectively.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
drug trafficking and cultivation of cannabis; illegal possession of firearms and ammunition
Case stage
Sentenced
Sentence
Prison
Region
Coquimbo
Date
Publication date
Sources
Mi Radiomiradiols.clESMás de 28 años de cárcel para integrante de red de narcotráfico en Andacollo y Coquimbo: tenía drogas, armas y cultivos de cannabis - Mi Radio
El Andacollinoelandacollino.clESCondenan a banda que traficaba drogas en Andacollo y Coquimbo: Uno recibió más de 28 años de cárcel
Open questions the AI reported
No total count of cannabis plants destroyed or seized was published, so no plant figure is recorded.
The sources give the cannabis and cocaine amounts as approximate minimums of more than 69 kilos and more than six kilos, not exact weighed totals.
10 November 2026 is the publication date of both reports; no separate sentencing date was given, so it stands in for the incident date.
The full combined prison total for the main defendant is broken down differently between outlets, so the report records the shared effective term of more than 28 years.
Other substances including cocaine, cocaine base, ketamine and caffeine were reported but are excluded from the cannabis weight.
The PDI's anti-narcotics brigade in Calama seized 186 kg of pressed marijuana at a stash point in the border area near San Pedro de Atacama, a find the local prosecutor said came from the internal border task force. The PDI valued the load at 900 million pesos and said it would be destroyed.
Carabineros' OS-7 unit in Cachapoal detained a 23-year-old man after seizing more than two kilos of marijuana from an interprovincial bus at kilometre 58 of Ruta 5 Sur in Mostazal. Drug-detecting dog Kelsy alerted officers to the luggage, and the man was placed at the disposal of the Ministerio Público on a trafficking allegation.
Carabineros detained a 50-year-old driver at a vehicle check on the northern access to the Coquimbo Region and seized 30.36 kg of processed marijuana in 30 packages. The Tenencia Carreteras Elqui found two packages in the car and OS7 officers found another 28 a short distance from the check point.
Carabineros stopped a Bolivian scout for a drug convoy carrying 867 kg of marijuana near Alto Lirima, Pica, in July 2021; he was sentenced to five years and a day. In May 2026 the Ministry of Justice cut three months from his term, one of 115 drug-offender commutations the ministry did not oppose.
