Six held in Anzoátegui microtrafficking sweep, 25.9 g of cannabis seized
Police in Anzoátegui state, Venezuela, detained six people in separate microtrafficking arrests across several municipalities, seizing 25.9 grams of suspected cannabis from one man in Barcelona and eight cannabis wrappers from a motorcyclist in Bruzual. The other four arrests involved suspected crack and cocaine; all six were handed to prosecutors.
🇻🇪 sector Las Casitas, Barcelona, Anzoátegui · Venezuela
Arrested
6
Cannabis
25.9 g
Police in Anzoátegui state detained six people across several municipalities on
suspicion of microtrafficking, the small-scale street sale of drugs.[1]Officers of the Criminal Investigation Service arrested a 37-year-old man in the
Las Casitas sector of Barcelona after he acted suspiciously on noticing the
patrol, and found a wrapper holding 25.9 grams of suspected cannabis in his
right armpit.[1]
In the Los Cerezos sector of Bruzual municipality, Clarines police stopped a
60-year-old man riding a motorcycle and seized eight wrappers of suspected
cannabis from him.[1]Other units made four more arrests in the same roundup,
three of them over suspected crack, a drug the reports call creepy, and a
24-year-old found with a wrapper of suspected cocaine.[1]One of those
detained, a 42-year-old held in the Andrés Bello sector of El Tigre, had five
prior records for other crimes in the SIIPOL police database.[1]
All six were handed to the Public Prosecutor’s Office for the corresponding
proceedings.[2]The arrests were reported by QBNoticias, citing the outlet
NDA, and by Noticias de Aquí on 8 November 2026.[2]
Photos and video
Photo published with the report on the six arrests in Anzoátegui. Photo: Noticias de AquíPhoto details
Neither account gives the exact day of the arrests; 8 November 2026 is the Noticias de Aquí publication date and is used as the incident date.
The cannabis is described as "presunta marihuana" (suspected cannabis); no laboratory confirmation was reported.
Only the Barcelona seizure gives a weight; the eight wrappers found in Bruzual are given no weight, so no kilogram figure is recorded for them.
Three of the detainees were held over suspected crack and one over suspected cocaine; these quantities are outside the cannabis figures and are not given as weights.
No names, charges filed, custody decisions or court outcomes were reported.
The Bolivarian National Guard stopped a go-fast boat off Falcón and arrested three people. The load was 1,485.506 kg of marijuana in 1,726 cakes and 8.856 kg of cocaine in nine cakes, after intelligence work with French customs.
FANB officers detained six people in two anti-drug operations in Nuevo Horizonte and Propatria in western Caracas. Officers reported a mixed seizure of 2,892 kg of drugs plus a separately weighed 128 grams of marijuana at a dismantled clandestine processing centre.
Bolivarian National Police arrested one person in central Maracaibo after finding 315 kg of marijuana in 600 wraps hidden inside 30 modified domestic gas cylinders. The suspect allegedly ran a basic-services distribution front and was handed to the Public Ministry.
Four alleged FARC members were captured on the Orinoco River on 17 February 2020 with 1,400 kg of suspected marijuana, firearms and military uniforms. They were charged with military rebellion and violation of a security zone and ordered held at the Oriente Penitentiary Centre in Monagas.
