Man, 25, arrested with four bags of marijuana in Coatepeque
Guatemala's National Civil Police said officers arrested Alexis “N”, 25, in barrio Candelaria, Coatepeque, Quetzaltenango, on 27 September 2026 after finding four bags of marijuana in the pickup he was driving. The arrest was one of several the police reported that Sunday across five departments for crimes including kidnapping, extortion and fraud.
Guatemala’s National Civil Police reported arrests in several departments for
different crimes on Sunday 27 September 2026.[1]In barrio Candelaria,
Coatepeque, Quetzaltenango, officers arrested a 25-year-old man identified as
Alexis “N”.[1]
Police said they caught him with four bags of marijuana that he was transporting
in a pickup, plate P-301KJF.[1]
The roundup also described searches in Zacapa that yielded a bag and seven
wrappers of marijuana alongside cocaine and crack, a separate operation.[1]
Case data
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Arrested
1
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis
Setting
Vehicle
Case stage
Under investigation
Sources
Prensa Libreprensalibre.comESOperativos dejan capturas por secuestro, extorsión y estafa, además del decomiso de droga
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No weight, value or strain details were published for the four bags of marijuana, so no kilograms can be recorded.
The article gives no separate date for the Coatepeque arrest; 27 September 2026 is the publication date and is used as the incident date.
No charges, custody ruling or court outcome were reported for the detained man; the police said only that he was caught with the bags.
Only one accessible source for the Coatepeque arrest was found; no agency statement or second outlet could be opened.
The Zacapa searches described in the same roundup are a separate event and are not covered by this report.
Other arrests in the same roundup, including the Villa Nueva and Chiquimula detentions, are unrelated events left out of this report.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Prensa Libre: The Coatepeque arrest came in the same police roundup as arrests on kidnapping, murder, extortion and fraud charges elsewhere.
On 21 October 2026 prosecutors and police at the Nuevo San Carlos inter-agency checkpoint on the CA-2 route arrested three Guatemalans in a pickup and seized 15 field-test-positive bags of marijuana, prefilled cannabis cigarettes, e-cigarettes and phones.
Police arrested Jaime “N”, 52, and Máximo “N”, 25, at a control post at kilometre 132.1 in Pasaco, Jutiapa, seizing 20 packages of marijuana plus two of crack and two phones. The men were moving a pickup on a tow truck, and both vehicles were impounded with the case sent to prosecutors.
Police arrested Zulmy Judith Méndez Díaz and Sandra Patricia Barillas del Cid as they tried to bring 15 packets of marijuana into the Las Gaviotas youth centre in Guatemala City for their detained sons. A duty court later bound both women over for trial on drug charges and ordered pretrial detention.
SGAIA anti-narcotics officers arrested a 33-year-old truck driver at kilometre 243.5 in Pajapita, San Marcos, after finding 21 bags of marijuana hidden in the cab's sleeping compartment. The drug-crime prosecution office said the 4 September inspection confirmed the drug by field test and seized the vehicle.
