Navy seizes 2,249.88 kg of marijuana in three Pacific interdictions; six held
Colombian Navy units seized 1,103 kg, 425 kg and 401.88 kg of marijuana in three separate Pacific interceptions on 14 December 2025, alongside 739 kg of cocaine hydrochloride on the second boat. Six Colombians and Panamanians crewing the first two boats were detained, and President Gustavo Petro cited the operations to warn that more cocaine may be leaving through Ecuador.
🇨🇴 Pacific waters off Bahía Solano, Chocó, and Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca · Colombia
Colombian Navy units intercepted two boats in Pacific waters carrying more than
two tonnes of drugs, crewed by six Colombians and Panamanians and bound for
Central America, the commander of the Buenaventura coast guard station said.[1]On the first boat, sailors found 1,103 kilograms of marijuana and
communications equipment.[1]In the second interception the Navy seized739
kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride and 425 kilograms of marijuana.[2]The
three seizures yielded 84 bales holding 2,397 packages of drugs, Defence
Ministry figures showed.[1]
In the third interception the crew of a boat fled and threw about 400 packages
into the sea.[2]Sailors recovered 401.88 kilograms of marijuana from the
water after the third boat’s crew fled, according to the Defence Ministry
account.[2]An intelligence alert let a naval aircraft guide a rapid reaction
unit of the Bahía Solano coast guard station to intercept the boat, its acting
commander, Lieutenant Nicolás Andrés Falon Guzmán, said.[1]
The three interdictions took the Navy’s Pacific seizures for 2025 to 66.3 tonnes
of drugs, of which 41.3 tonnes were cocaine hydrochloride and 25 tonnes
marijuana.[1]President Gustavo Petro said the operation killed no one and
asked whether more cocaine was leaving through Ecuador, urging that the
neighbouring country be helped.[1]Bogotá councillor Papo Amín mocked Petro’s
interpretation on X, saying the fishing boats were unlikely to be carrying such
cargo.[1]
El País said the three procedures took place at different points of the Pacific,
a region used by criminal structures to move drugs toward international routes,
mainly to Central America.[2]
Photos and video
Two-minute video on the three Pacific interdictions by the Colombian Navy, captioned as footage of the operations credited to @mindefensa on X. Source: Infobae
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Colombia → Panama, Costa Rica via Pacific sea route
Date
Publication date
Sources
Infobaeinfobae.comESIncautan casi tres toneladas de marihuana y cocaína en el Pacífico: Petro celebró y advirtió que se debe ayudar a Ecuador
El País (Cali)elpais.com.coESArmada de Colombia incauta cerca de tres toneladas de droga en el Pacífico; detalles de los operativos
Open questions the AI reported
The accounts give no separate day for the three interceptions; 14 December 2025 is the date of the Defence Ministry statement and of publication, and is used as the incident date.
The reports do not say how the 84 bales and 2,397 packages were divided between the three boats or between marijuana and cocaine.
The marijuana and cocaine are described as such by the authorities; no laboratory test result is reported.
No charges, custody rulings or court outcomes were reported for the six detainees, and their identities were not published.
No value, dose count or weight for the seized communications equipment was published.
Petro's post says the Navy seized 60 tonnes of cocaine in the Pacific, while the Defence Ministry figure used in the reports is 41.3 tonnes of cocaine hydrochloride; the report uses the ministry figure.
The Infobae page image is a Presidency handout of Petro reacting to the interdictions, not a picture of the seizures, so it is not listed as media.
The video published with the Infobae page is credited to @mindefensa on X; its content could not be viewed, so what it shows rests on that caption.
The reports do not name the boats' departure ports beyond Colombia or say which interception produced the 84 bales.
Army troops seized 1,700 kilograms of pressed marijuana from a van in Santander de Quilichao, Cauca, capturing one person after a pursuit from a military checkpoint. The Third Division attributed the load to the FARC dissidents' Dagoberto Ramos structure and valued the loss to it at more than 425 million pesos.
Colombian army, navy and police units seized about 2,700 kilograms of suspected marijuana from a bongo remolcador river boat at the Hong Kong wharf in Puerto Asís, Putumayo. Authorities linked the load to the Segunda Marquetalia dissidence's Comandos de Frontera, without naming suspects or giving a value.
Colombian police stopped a vehicle in the urban area of Chinchiná, Caldas, carrying 520 kilograms of marijuana and arrested the person caught in the act, immobilising a car with altered identification systems. President Abelardo de la Espriella announced the haul as part of two operations, the other being 358 kilograms of cocaine found in generators at the port of Cartagena.
Colombian National Police investigators seized 7,452 grams of marijuana in the Los Quindos neighbourhood of Armenia, Quindío, along with 98 boxes of clonazepam. Police said the marijuana was meant for sale in minimum doses at sales points around the city and handed the drugs to the local prosecutor's office; no arrests were reported.
