10,097 marijuana plants incinerated at Las Minas, Tocoa
On 18 February 2026 Honduras's anti-drug directorate DLCN, with naval special forces and military intelligence, eradicated and burned 10,097 marijuana plants on about two manzanas at Las Minas aldea in Tocoa, Colón. The prosecution said the operation was part of ongoing work against cultivation networks; no arrests were reported.
On 18 February 2026 the Directorate for the Fight Against Drug Trafficking (DLCN), with the
First Naval Special Forces Battalion and the Armed Forces strategic intelligence directorate
C2, located and eradicated a marijuana plantation at Las Minas aldea in Tocoa municipality,
Colón department.[1][2]
La Tribuna said the plot covered about two manzanas and that officers uprooted and incinerated
10,097 marijuana plants to keep them from being processed or sold.[1]
Prensa Latina, citing a prosecution note, reported more than 10,000 bushes burned on roughly
1.4 hectares in the same Las Minas operation in mountainous Colón.[2]
Both accounts said the authorities are continuing operations against cultivation and trafficking
networks; neither named any arrests.[1][2]
The prosecution’s note, as relayed by Prensa Latina, also recalled an earlier coca eradication
at Icoteas in Limón; that earlier case is not covered here.[2]
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Illustration published with La Tribuna's report on the Colón eradication.Photo details
La Tribuna gives two manzanas of ground; the prosecution note cited by Prensa Latina puts the site at about 1.4 hectares without saying whether that is the same measure.
Neither report names the day of the field work; both were published on 18 February 2026 and the event is dated to that day from the official wording.
The articles name no cultivators or arrests.
The map marks Tocoa municipality; Las Minas aldea is not geolocated more precisely.
Prensa Latina's note also recalls an earlier coca eradication at Icoteas in Limón; that is a separate event.
After locating two mountain plots in August 2026, Honduras's DNPA and special forces returned on 5 September to Los Zorros, Marale, incinerating about 12,000 marijuana plants on roughly three manzanas and destroying a rustic processing shelter, with the micro-trafficking prosecutor's office supervising. No arrests were reported.
On 31 May 2026 DNPA officers with investigations and community-security police dismantled a mountain plantation at El Chelón No. 2 in Guaimaca, destroying about 1,000 mature plants, 1,500 seedlings and packaged marijuana, and detaining a 29-year-old local man. La Tribuna said 80 pounds were hidden in a buried barrel.
Honduran military and anti-narcotics agents eradicated 2,957 suspected cannabis plants in Güiscoyol, Gualaco. The field covered about half a manzana, and no arrests were reported.
Honduran anti-drug police eradicated a plantation described as supposed marijuana in Aguacatal, Ojojona, and detained one person. The police post gives no plant count, weight, area or detainee details.
