Police seize 7.4 kg of marijuana in Armenia's Los Quindos neighbourhood
Colombian National Police investigators seized 7,452 grams of marijuana in the Los Quindos neighbourhood of Armenia, Quindío, along with 98 boxes of clonazepam. Police said the marijuana was meant for sale in minimum doses at sales points around the city and handed the drugs to the local prosecutor's office; no arrests were reported.
🇨🇴 barrio Los Quindos, Armenia, Quindío · Colombia
National Police units of the Seccional de Investigación Criminal, the criminal
investigation branch known as SIJIN, seized7,452 grams of marijuana in the Los
Quindos neighbourhood of Armenia, the capital of Colombia’s Quindío department.[1]The same operation found 98 boxes of clonazepam, a sedative medicine under
special control, in the neighbourhood.[1]
The seizure came during judicial police work that located the marijuana and the
controlled medicines.[1]According to the investigation, the marijuana and
pills were to be distributed at sales points around the city and sold in minimum
doses.[1]The police described the seizure as part of actions to identify and
hit networks that store and distribute illegal substances in Armenia.[1]
The marijuana and boxes of clonazepam were placed at the disposal of the
Fiscalía URI of Armenia, the prosecutor’s office that will handle the judicial
steps in the investigation.[1]
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Police display the seized marijuana and clonazepam in Los Quindos.Photo details
La Cuyabra Radiolacuyabraradio.comESIncautan más de siete kilos de marihuana y 98 cajas de clonazepam en el barrio Los Quindos de Armenia
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The article gives no separate date for the seizure; 9 November 2026 is its publication date, and the brief social-media posts seen in search results say only that it happened recently, so the incident date shown is approximate.
No arrest, detention, charge or suspect was reported; only that the drugs were left with the Fiscalía URI of Armenia.
No value estimate for the 7,452 grams was published, and no figure was given for the number of doses.
The 98 boxes of clonazepam are counted nowhere in the figures because clonazepam is a controlled medicine, not a cannabis product.
Only one accessible account was opened; the other pages found were social-media posts repeating the same police statement.
The page's only image, a 665 by 384 pixel image whose file name repeats the headline, has no caption or credit and is not confirmed to show the seizure, so it is not listed as media.
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