Guatemalan arrested with seven pounds of cannabis at El Florido border
Border police arrested a 24-year-old Guatemalan at El Florido in Copán on 26 October 2026 and seized four packages of suspected marijuana weighing about seven pounds. He was sent to Copán Ruinas for drug-trafficking charges; lab tests were pending.
Officers of Honduras’s National Border Police Service (DNSPF), backed by the tactical GOET unit, arrested a 24-year-old Guatemalan at the El Florido checkpoint in Copán on 26 October 2026.[1][2]
They found four adhesive-taped packages of dry plant material on him that police treated as suspected marijuana, with a preliminary weight of about seven pounds.[1][2]Three packages weighed about two pounds each and the fourth about one pound.[1]
Police said he came from Las Flores in Jocotán, Chiquimula, Guatemala, and would face illicit drug-trafficking charges.[1]The drugs were secured for chemical analysis and he was transferred to the investigations directorate in Copán Ruinas before referral to prosecutors.[1]
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The detainee with four packages of suspected marijuana, shown by Tiempo.hn.Photo details
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