Police at El Dorado airport in Bogotá seized more than 50 kilograms of marijuana addressed for delivery to Tunja and Villavicencio in two operations.[1][2] The seizures came from inspections of parcels and domestic shipments in the airport’s cargo warehouses.[1][2]

In the first operation, officers spotted irregularities in two boxes on the scanner in the national cargo warehouse and found 30 protein tins hiding a plant substance resembling marijuana.[1][2] That shipment weighed more than 21 kilograms and had been sent from Cali to Tunja, in Boyacá, with the marijuana packed inside the tins to escape detection.[1][2] In a second operation police found more than 29 kilograms of marijuana hidden inside an air compressor sent as a parcel, bound for Villavicencio.[1][2] Semana reported that the compressor parcel had been dispatched from the municipality of Buga and that the two seizures were made by the airport police station of the Bogotá Metropolitan Police.[3][2]

Lieutenant Colonel Elizabeth Erazo Benavides, commander of the airport police station, said the station’s officers seized more than 50 kilograms of marijuana.[3] Police said more than seven tonnes of marijuana had been seized in Bogotá so far in 2026, and said they would strengthen scanner and operational checks at the airport.[1]