1.4 tonnes of marijuana seized off Buenaventura; 7 held
Colombia's Navy seized 1,461.6 kg of marijuana in two Pacific operations off Buenaventura and detained seven people. The Navy said the seizures kept more than 242,000 doses off the illegal international market and cost traffickers over 15 million dollars.
🇨🇴 Pacific waters off Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca · Colombia
Colombia’s Navy detained seven people across two Pacific anti-drug operations
off Buenaventura, three Panamanian citizens and four Colombians, who were placed
at the disposal of the competent authority for judicial proceedings.[1]A
minor travelling aboard the first boat was handed to the Childhood and
Adolescence Police for the restoration of rights and was not counted among the
seven captured.[1]
Officers first inspected a coastal cabotage boat in the inner bay of
Buenaventura and found nine boxes holding 216 rectangular packages with 317.9
kilograms of marijuana.[1]Acting on Naval Intelligence, rapid-reaction Coast
Guard units then intercepted a go-fast boat 45 nautical miles from Buenaventura
and found 35 bales holding 1,146 packages of suspected illicit substances.[1]After the go-fast boat sank during the transfer to Buenaventura, the Navy
rescued all its occupants and recovered the cargo, which CTI officials of the
Attorney General’s Office confirmed as 1,143.7 kilograms of marijuana.[1]In
total, the two operations seized1,461.6 kilograms of marijuana.[1]
The Navy said the result affected drug-trafficking finances by more than 15
million dollars.[1]It said the seizures prevented more than 242,000 doses of
marijuana from reaching the illegal international market.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
No separate date is given for the two interdictions; 21 July 2026 is the publication date and is used as the incident date.
Nine people were aboard the first boat but only three were reported captured, and the fate of the other Colombian occupants besides the minor was not explained.
No charges, custody ruling or court outcome beyond referral to the competent authority for prosecution was reported.
The account rests on a single official Navy statement; no second independent account was found.
On 11 November 2026, units of the Colombian army's Brigade 29 seized 440 kilograms of marijuana at the old Tunía toll on the Panamericana road in Piendamó, Cauca, after the truck's driver tried to evade a checkpoint and abandoned the vehicle. The authorities attributed the load to the FARC dissidents' Dagoberto Ramos structure.
Soldiers of the Colombian Army's Ninth Brigade captured two men at a checkpoint in Balsillas, San Vicente del Caguán, Caquetá, and seized 87 kilograms of marijuana they were carrying on two motorcycles. The Army estimated the load at about 160 million pesos and about 174,000 doses.
Army troops seized 1,700 kilograms of pressed marijuana from a van in Santander de Quilichao, Cauca, capturing one person after a pursuit from a military checkpoint. The Third Division attributed the load to the FARC dissidents' Dagoberto Ramos structure and valued the loss to it at more than 425 million pesos.
Colombian army, navy and police units seized about 2,700 kilograms of suspected marijuana from a bongo remolcador river boat at the Hong Kong wharf in Puerto Asís, Putumayo. Authorities linked the load to the Segunda Marquetalia dissidence's Comandos de Frontera, without naming suspects or giving a value.
