Police dismantle indoor cannabis grow in Atenas; tenant arrested
Police in Atenas canton dismantled an indoor marijuana cultivation site, seizing 244 plants and 267 grams of processed cannabis. A tenant named Trejos was taken into custody; it was the fourth such grow house found in Costa Rica in 2025.
Police dismantled an illegal indoor cannabis cultivation site at a rented house in Atenas canton, Alajuela province, acting on community complaints about suspicious activity linked to cannabis use there.[1]Officers confirmed the house was being used to grow marijuana indoors and called in specialists from the Drug Control Police (PCD) to process the evidence.[1]
Authorities seized about 244 marijuana plants, 267 grams of processed cannabis and indoor cultivation tools, all secured as evidence.[1]A man at the residence, identified by the surname Trejos, was taken into custody and transferred to the San Jose Public Ministry to await a judge’s decision on possible pretrial detention.[1]
The Ministry of Public Security said the case was the fourth cannabis grow house dismantled in Costa Rica in 2025.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
1
of them seized
244
Cannabis
267 g
Agency
Drug Control Police (PCD)
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis (267 g); Living plants (244 plants)
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Costa Rica's Drug Control Police detained 13 people, including two minors, in 11 dawn raids in Liberia, Guanacaste, targeting retail drug-selling points. Officers seized 80 grams plus 116 wraps of marijuana alongside crack, cocaine, cash and a handmade gun.
After a 911 alert in Corazón de Jesús, San José, Costa Rican police found cannabis on a table, then raided a controlled-environment grow on 10 September 2026, detaining five people and seizing 53 plants and more than 3.8 kg of processed marijuana.
Costa Rican police broke up two linked Cuban-led networks on 8 June 2016, one growing cannabis in clandestine hydroponic laboratories and the other flying couriers to Cuba with the drug hidden in clothing. Seven searches in San José seized 58 plants, 48.6 grams of cannabis material and 11,500 US dollars, and the laboratories' caretakers were detained.
