OS7 seizes 737 kg of marijuana in a Calama house, one man held
On 30 August 2026 Carabineros OS7 and GOPE, with the Antofagasta prosecutor's office, raided a Calama house and seized 737.3 kg of marijuana traced from Bolivia. A 28-year-old Colombian man was arrested and remanded in pre-trial custody for drug trafficking.
On Sunday 30 August 2026 officers of Carabineros’ OS7 anti-drug unit and the GOPE special forces,
backed by a judicial warrant, searched a house in Calama, in Chile’s Antofagasta region.[1][2]Inside they found packages of marijuana weighing 737 kilograms and 300 grams, plus other items tied
to the offence.[1][2][3]
The Antofagasta prosecutor’s specialised drug unit (Fiscalía SAC) said investigators had traced a
large shipment entering Chile from Bolivia and followed it to the urban address under Chile’s drug
law.[1][2]Calama en Línea says the OS7 inquiry began on 29 August.[3]
A Colombian man aged 28, described as having irregular migration status, was arrested.[1][3]He was
formalised for drug trafficking and ordered into pre-trial detention for danger to public safety,
with a 90-day investigation period.[1][2][3]
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Packaged marijuana shown with the Calama en Línea report on the OS7 seizure.Photo details
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The PDI's anti-narcotics brigade in Calama seized 186 kg of pressed marijuana at a stash point in the border area near San Pedro de Atacama, a find the local prosecutor said came from the internal border task force. The PDI valued the load at 900 million pesos and said it would be destroyed.
Carabineros' OS-7 unit in Cachapoal detained a 23-year-old man after seizing more than two kilos of marijuana from an interprovincial bus at kilometre 58 of Ruta 5 Sur in Mostazal. Drug-detecting dog Kelsy alerted officers to the luggage, and the man was placed at the disposal of the Ministerio Público on a trafficking allegation.
Carabineros detained a 50-year-old driver at a vehicle check on the northern access to the Coquimbo Region and seized 30.36 kg of processed marijuana in 30 packages. The Tenencia Carreteras Elqui found two packages in the car and OS7 officers found another 28 a short distance from the check point.
Carabineros in Chile's Atacama region detained five Chilean adults after officers found 140 marijuana packages in two vehicles at a service station on Route 5 Norte in Chañaral, and seized 156 kg 692 g of marijuana. Prosecutors formalised trafficking charges against the five and a Chañaral court placed them all in preventive detention; Carabineros valued the haul at about 1.57 billion pesos.
