Police destroy 72,000 marijuana plants on 2.5 hectares in Chugay
Peru's National Police carried out five interventions in Caucharatay, Chugay district, between 22 and 26 September 2025, eradicating 72,000 marijuana plants on two and a half hectares and destroying 723.8 kg of the drug valued at 206,760 soles. A separate Infobae account of the Chugay operation gives 49,000 plants, 200 kg and more than 500,000 soles.
🇵🇪 Caserío Caucharatay, Chugay district, Sánchez Carrión, La Libertad · Peru
Peru’s National Police anti-drug officers carried out five interventions in the
hamlet of Caucharatay, in Chugay district, Sánchez Carrión province, La
Libertad.[1]Twenty-seven officers took part in the operations between 22 and
26 September 2025 at five separate points.[1]
On 22 September officers eradicated and burned 29,000 plantings on one hectare
of cannabis.[2]The next day they destroyed 43,000 more marijuana seedlings on
a hectare and a half.[2]In all, the operation covered more than two and a
half hectares of illegal marijuana fields.[1]
Officers seized and destroyed 71 sacks holding 723 kilograms and 800 grams of
marijuana.[2]Police put the value of the destroyed marijuana at 206,760
soles.[2]A separate Infobae account of the same Chugay operation reported
49,000 cannabis plants eradicated and 200 kilograms of the drug burned.[3]The
same account put the value of the crops destroyed at more than 500,000 soles.[3]
No arrests were reported because those responsible fled minutes before officers
arrived.[3]Police said investigations continue to identify and dismantle
those responsible for the cultivation.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Plants destroyed
72,000
Area
2.5 ha
Cannabis
723.8 kg
Value (official estimate)
PEN 206,760
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis (723.8 kg); Living plants (72,000 plants)
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Open questions the AI reported
The two accounts of the Chugay operation give incompatible plant counts (49,000 against 72,000) and weights (200 kg against 723.8 kg); the report uses Diario Correo's five-day breakdown and states the Infobae figures separately.
Infobae gives no separate incident date; its 2 October 2025 publication follows the 22-26 September window given by the other accounts, and 22 September is used as the incident date.
No arrests were reported in any account, and no cultivator is named.
The Infobae article also describes a separate seizure of 220 kg in Pinra, Huacaybamba, a week earlier; that is a different event and is left out of this report.
Infobae labels its images as reference compositions and its second captioned image concerns the Pinra seizure, so no confirmed photograph of the Chugay operation with a recoverable address is included.
Diario Correo's day-by-day sack breakdown totals 46 sacks and about 473.8 kg, less than its stated total of 71 sacks and 723.8 kg; the report uses the stated totals.
Police eradicated and burned 32,500 marijuana seedlings and seized about 621.7 kg of the drug in Yacopampa, Chugay district, La Libertad. They also disabled two collection and drying centres; no arrests were reported.
Peru's National Police burned more than 120,000 cannabis plants in three plots at Chambara Alto, Sayán. The three areas covered about six hectares, and no arrests were reported.
On 12 February 2026 Peru's defence ministry said the army's 2nd Wari Infantry Brigade and police eradicated more than 119,000 marijuana seedlings on three plots at Sarabamba in Anco district, La Mar province, in the VRAEM, and seized seven sacks from two clandestine storage sites. No arrests were reported.
Peruvian police burned more than 50 tonnes of cannabis in a five-day operation across La Libertad and Huánuco, destroying a record 207,000 plants on 34.5 hectares in an operation the interior minister said beat the whole of 2011 seventeen times over.
