Mototaxi driver held with 79 bags of marijuana in Cancún
Quintana Roo's Grupo Orión police arrested a mototaxi driver on avenida Galaxias del Sol in Cancún and seized 79 small bags of suspected marijuana along with 15 of apparent crack. He was handed to the state prosecutor's office, which will determine his legal situation.
Officers of Grupo Orión, a unit of Quintana Roo’s state Citizen Security
Secretariat, arrested a mototaxi driver suspected of narcomenudeo, small-scale
drug dealing, in Cancún.[1]The arrest took place on avenida Galaxias del Sol
in the municipality of Benito Juárez, which includes Cancún.[1]During
prevention patrols, officers saw the man behind a mototaxi handling several
small bags of green plant material inside a waist bag.[1]Seeing the police,
he tried to board the mototaxi and drive off, but the officers caught him.[1]
The officers identified themselves and explained the reason for the stop, and
the man agreed to be searched.[1]The search found 79 small bags of dry green
plant material described as apparently marijuana.[1]Officers also found 15
small bags of white solid fragments that appeared to be crack, a form of
cocaine.[1]In total, authorities secured 94 small bags of suspected drugs.[1]They seized the black waist bag that held the bags and the grey Piaggio Ape
City mototaxi with a white roof the man was using.[1]
Officers handed the detainee and the seized items to the Quintana Roo Attorney
General’s Office (Fiscalía General del Estado, FGE), which will investigate and
determine his legal situation.[1]The detainee was identified as Deivy “N” and
was held over his probable involvement in health offences.[2]
A second Cancún outlet confirms the same Grupo Orión arrest of a mototaxi driver
on avenida Galaxias del Sol with 79 bags of suspected marijuana and 15 of
apparent crack.[2]
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Grupo Orión officers present the detained mototaxi driver after the Galaxias del Sol arrest in CancúnPhoto details
The articles give no separate date for the detention; 5 November 2026, their publication date, is used as the incident date.
No weight or street value was published for the 79 bags of suspected marijuana, only the number of bags.
The substance is described only as having characteristics similar to marijuana, with no laboratory confirmation reported.
The 15 bags of apparent crack are excluded from cannabis figures; no combined drug weight was reported.
No charges or court outcome are reported; the FGE will determine the detainee's legal situation.
Both accounts appear to follow the same state police information and are not independent confirmation.
Media is the Grupo Orión presentation photo published with Quintana Roo Hoy's account of this arrest; bag counts are not visible in the frame.
The Wayback Machine capture for the Quintana Roo Hoy page redirected to a different Cancún security article, so that source is left without an archived copy.
Guardia Civil Estatal officers detained three suspected drug sellers in San Vicente and Ciudad Valles, in San Luis Potosí's Huasteca. They seized two marijuana doses from a couple and 11 bags of marijuana from a third man, along with cristal that is not counted as cannabis.
State police and federal forces detained two people during patrols in Acapulco's Paso Limonero and Cervantes neighbourhoods, seizing 41 small bags of suspected marijuana, 20 doses of suspected crystal and a motorcycle. Authorities reported 30 bags of suspected marijuana and the motorcycle in Paso Limonero, and 11 bags in Cervantes.
Guardia Civil Estatal officers detained Daniel “N” in Ciudad Valles and Pedro “N” in Ciudad Fernández, with the Army joining the second stop. Officers seized methamphetamine doses, bags of marijuana and a Chevrolet pickup, reporting 78 drug doses overall; both men were handed to investigators.
Security forces detained a man in San Vicente, a town in Bahía de Banderas, Nayarit, after finding six doses of suspected marijuana and 15 packets of suspected crystal methamphetamine among his belongings. He was handed over to prosecutors to face an investigation for offences against health as part of joint patrols against street-level drug dealing.
