Two women held at El Dorado with 4.3 kg of marijuana taped to their bodies
Police at Bogotá's El Dorado airport arrested two women, one Colombian and one foreign national, who were flying to Cali with 18 packages strapped to their bodies. The packages held 5,445 grams of cocaine and 4,315 grams of marijuana; both women were handed to the Attorney General's Office accused of drug trafficking.
🇨🇴 El Dorado International Airport, Bogotá · Colombia
Arrested
2
Cannabis
4.315 kg
Police at Bogotá’s El Dorado International Airport stopped two women carrying
drug packages taped to their bodies, one of them Colombian and the other a
foreign national.[1]Security cameras at El Dorado detected unusual movement
in two passengers, which led officers to intervene.[1]
Officers found 18 packages taped to the women’s bodies whose contents added up
to 5,445 grams of cocaine and 4,315 grams of marijuana.[1]El Espectador
reported the same split and the same handover of the two women and the drugs to
the Attorney General’s Office.[2]
The packages were stuck to the passengers’ bodies and were found during a
personal search.[1]The load was destined for Cali, a domestic route inside
Colombia.[1]
Both women were handed to the Attorney General’s Office, accused of
manufacturing, trafficking in and carrying narcotics.[1]The police said
technological surveillance in air terminals was key to preventing the transfer
of the substances and securing the seizure.[1]Authorities were investigating
whether a wider network stood behind the attempted transfer.[1]
On 16 September 2026 two Venezuelan women were arrested at the same airport with
marijuana and cocaine strapped to their bodies, and a report on that second case
described the August detention as an identical earlier procedure.[3]
Photos and video
The two detained passengers with the drug packages taped to their bodies at El Dorado airport, captioned 'Con 10 kilos de droga adherida en su cuerpo fueron capturadas dos mujeres en El Dorado'. Photo: Policía Metropolitana de BogotáPhoto details
Infobaeinfobae.comESDos mujeres fueron capturadas con droga adherida a su cuerpo en el aeropuerto El Dorado de Bogotá: llevaban 10 kilos de estupefacientes
El Espectadorelespectador.comESCaen dos mujeres con casi 10 kilos de cocaína y marihuana adheridos al cuerpo en El Dorado
El Colombianoelcolombiano.comESCapturaron a dos extranjeras en El Dorado en Bogotá tras intentar viajar con 11 kilos de drogas bajo la ropa: no sería el primer caso
Open questions the AI reported
No separate date for the two women's interception is given; 26 August 2026 is the publication date of the coverage and stands in for the incident date.
The figure of about 10 kilograms repeated in the coverage and headlines combines cocaine and marijuana; only the 4,315 grams of marijuana is recorded as a cannabis figure.
The packages are described as holding cocaine and marijuana without saying how many of the 18 packages held each substance.
The sources do not name the women, give their ages, or state the foreign national's nationality; no individual package weights were published.
No charge hearing, measure of restraint, plea or sentence was reported; the case was at the stage of being handed to the Attorney General's Office.
No street value for the marijuana was published.
The August accounts reproduce the same Bogotá Metropolitan Police statement, so they are not fully independent reporting; an El Tiempo report of the same detention was read but is not cited because its text could not be checked against a saved capture.
El Colombiano's 16 September 2026 report covers a different detention of two Venezuelan women and is used only for its description of the August procedure.
The Bogotá seizure roundup in Infobae (84 kg of marijuana to San Andrés, 60 kg to Sao Paulo, the abandoned suitcase and others) belongs to other events and is left out of this report.
Córdoba police arrested seven people on drug-trafficking charges across Lorica, Planeta Rica, Montelíbano and Tierralta, seizing 20.6 grams of weighed marijuana and 12 marijuana cigarettes alongside cocaine, bazuco, coca base and cash. All seven detainees were placed at the disposal of the Fiscalía General de la Nación while their legal status is decided.
National Police arrested a 35-year-old man in the Oasis neighborhood of Rivera, Huila, seizing 57 marijuana cigarettes from his backpack during a Plan Cazador night patrol. He was placed at the disposal of the competent authority on suspicion of drug trafficking.
Police in Frontino, Antioquia, arrested a man in flagrante in the La Máquina sector after finding 219 grams of marijuana along with coca base and bazuco. He was placed at the disposal of local prosecutors on suspicion of trafficking, manufacturing or carrying narcotics.
Police in northern Bucaramanga arrested a 30-year-old man during a preventive patrol and found 230 grams of marijuana and 30 wraps of a cocaine derivative on him. He was held for drug trafficking and handed to the Attorney General's Office, which is to bring him before a judge.
