Paraguay Colorado official among three held in Bolivia with 5 tonnes of marijuana
Bolivian police and prosecutors arrested Fredy Alberto Godoy Segovia, president of a Colorado Party branch in Paraguay's San Pedro department, and two other Paraguayans at Naranjos in Santa Cruz on 22 August 2017. Officers seized five tonnes, 111 kilos and 300 grams of marijuana in 470 packages, and prosecutors said they would charge all three with drug trafficking.
🇧🇴 Naranjos, Roboré–Puerto Suárez road, Santa Cruz department · Bolivia
Bolivian police and prosecutorsarrested three Paraguayan citizens at Naranjos,
on the Roboré–Puerto Suárez road in Santa Cruz department, as they guarded black
sacks holding packages of marijuana.[1]Ximena Morales, national director of
Bolivia’s control-substances prosecutor’s office, said the three were caught in
flagrante with the drug and that they would be charged withtraffickingcontrolled substances.[1]Morales said officers found them guarding several
black sacks of brick-shaped packages that tested positive for marijuana.[2]
Godoy was president of a Colorado Party branch in the city of Liberación, in San
Pedro department, for the party’s Honor Colorado faction of then-president
Horacio Cartes.[3]He belonged to Honor Colorado, the faction of President
Horacio Cartes.[3]ABC Color reported that Godoy was close to the Vázquez
family of San Pedro, including deputy Perla Acosta de Vázquez.[4]
The load came in 470 brick-shaped packages hidden in black bags and weighed five
tonnes, 111 kilos and 300 grams.[1]Opinión Bolivia reported that the seized
drug was valued at 12.3 million dollars.[1]The marijuana had been brought
into Bolivia from Paraguay.[3]Bolivia’s public prosecutor’s office ordered
the seizure and said it would file a formal charge against the three, while a
judge was to set a precautionary-measures hearing to decide their legal
situation.[2]The whole load was taken to Santa Cruz de la Sierra for
presentation and later incineration, according to Morales, the national director
of control substances.[3]
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No court outcome, conviction or sentence for the three men was found in the opened reporting.
No figure for the number of people charged beyond the three named detainees was published, so charged counts the three the prosecutor's office said it would formally charge.
The figure of 12.3 million dollars appears only in Opinión Bolivia and is not given by the fiscalía accounts, so it is recorded as that outlet's valuation.
DW reports Godoy's first name as 'Fred' while Opinion and ABC Color give 'Fredy', and Opinion abbreviates all three surnames.
The bare name Naranjos did not provide a map coordinate; the coordinates used are for Roboré on the road named in the reports and should be read as approximate for the locality.
The photos listed are the pages' own pictures; neither carries a photographer or police-agency credit, and neither is established to show the Naranjos sacks themselves.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in ABC Color: The three were Gilberto Villordo Sixto, Fredy Alberto Godoy Segovia and Salomón Sanabria Núñez.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in ABC Color: According to the party's records, he was to hold that post until 2020, and he was a long-serving official at Liberación's health post.
Felcn's detector dog Lía alerted on two bags in the parcel store of an interprovincial transport company in southern Cochabamba. Officers found 42 vacuum-sealed packages that tested positive for marijuana. No weight or arrest was reported.
Bolivia's anti-narcotics force arrested two women and one man in Puerto Quijarro, on the border with Brazil, after finding 31 packages of marijuana in their vehicle and another seven in a linked property. The officers seized the house, the vehicle and two phones and sent the three to the Public Ministry; no weight was published for the 38 packages.
Former judge Herbert Zeballos was arrested again in Santa Cruz on 31 October 2026 and returned to Palmasola after a court revoked his house arrest for an alleged violation. The prosecution stems from a January cannabis seizure at a warehouse linked to him, where FELCN reported finding 79 kg of marijuana.
Prosecutors and police in Riberalta, Beni, arrested two Brazilian citizens and a Bolivian after finding 258 kilos and 650 grams of marijuana in jute sacks in a room. The three were held for investigation of controlled-substance trafficking and awaited a custody hearing.
