Navy seizes 2,215 kg of marijuana from a boat off Buenaventura, holds 5
Colombia's navy intercepted a boat near Buenaventura in the Pacific and found 2,215 kg of marijuana and 1,204 kg of cocaine hydrochloride in 138 sacks and rectangular packages. Three Nicaraguans and two Costa Ricans aged 23 to 41 were detained and handed to the Attorney General's Office.
🇨🇴 Waters off Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca · Colombia
The Colombian navy detained three Nicaraguans and two Costa Ricans whose boat
was carrying more than three tonnes of marijuana and cocaine in the Pacific.[1]A navy vessel detected the suspicious boat and naval units stopped it after
the crew tried to flee.[2]The boat was located near Buenaventura, Colombia’s
main Pacific port.[3]
Five crew members and 138 sacks and rectangular packages were found aboard.[3]Tests at the Buenaventura Coast Guard Station found 2,215 kg of marijuana and
1,204 kg of cocaine hydrochloride.[2]
The five detainees were aged between 23 and 41 and were handed to the Attorney
General’s Office for prosecution.[2]The navy said the two parallel operations
kept more than US$100 million from criminal organisations, a figure covering
both the maritime seizure and a separate Chocó depot find.[3]
In the parallel Chocó operation, troops found an illegal depot in a wooded area
of the Abega sector, rural Bahía Solano, holding 786 kg of marijuana and 670 kg
of cocaine, with no arrests reported.[2]
The detainees were presented to prosecutors in Colombia to face the
corresponding charges.[1]
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An image published by the Colombian navy on 17 February 2025 with its account of joint sea-control operations by the National Police and the navy; no individual credit is given.Photo details
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The sources give no separate date for the interception; 17 February 2025 is when the navy announced it.
No charges, court dates or outcomes were reported for the five detainees.
The sources do not name the vessel, its route or destination.
Reports of the Buenaventura stop reproduce the navy statement, so there is no independent account of the interception.
The navy's US$100 million figure covers both operations and both substances, so no cannabis value is recorded.
A separate Chocó depot find of 786 kg of marijuana and 670 kg of cocaine, reported in the same navy communiqué without arrests, is a different event and is left out here.
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