Woman held at El Dorado with 21 kg of marijuana hidden in stove
Police at Bogotá's El Dorado airport arrested a 33-year-old woman accused of trying to send about 21 kg of marijuana hidden in a stove by parcel to San Andrés. Officers found 40 polyethylene-wrapped packages inside the stove during cargo-warehouse checks and handed the woman and the load to the Attorney General's Office.
🇨🇴 Aeropuerto Internacional El Dorado cargo warehouses, Bogotá · Colombia
Bogotá metropolitan police reported the capture of a 33-year-old woman accused
of trying to send marijuana camouflaged in a parcel bound for San Andrés.[1]The detention occurred near El Dorado International Airport during routine
checks by officers in the cargo warehouses.[1]Officers intervened after
noticing the suspicious attitude of the person dispatching the box.[1]
During inspection officers found 40 rectangular polyethylene-wrapped packages
hidden inside a stove containing a dry substance with characteristics and odour
similar to marijuana.[1]The load weighed approximately 21 kilograms.[1]The
woman was captured at the scene and placed with the seized material at the
disposal of the Attorney General’s Office for alleged trafficking, manufacture
or possession of narcotics.[1]
El Dorado airport police commander Wilson Torres said the operation resulted
from daily inspection, search and control procedures at the air terminal in
coordination with the United States HSI interagency unit.[1]
Photos and video
Police photo of the marijuana hidden in a stove seized during the El Dorado Airport operation. Photo: @PoliciaBogota/X via AlertaPhoto details
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Open questions the AI reported
No separate date for the arrest is given; 20 September 2025 is the article's publication date and is used as the incident date.
The weight is reported as approximate (about 21 kilograms) and the substance is described only as having characteristics and odour similar to marijuana; no laboratory confirmation was reported.
No court outcome, plea, sentence or full identity beyond a 33-year-old woman was reported; the case was at the stage of being placed at the disposal of the Fiscalía General de la Nación.
Only one accessible source for this event was opened; web search returned no second account and no agency statement could be opened for corroboration.
The article's mention of more than 7.5 tonnes of marijuana seized in Bogotá in 2025 is a separate annual total and is left out of this event report.
The page photo is credited to @PoliciaBogota/X and captioned as the stove seizure at El Dorado; it is linked, not copied.
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