Units of the Córdoba Police Department (Departamento de Policía Córdoba) arrested seven people implicated in drug trafficking during operations across the municipalities of Lorica, Planeta Rica, Montelíbano and Tierralta.[1] The detainees were placed at the disposal of the Attorney General’s Office (Fiscalía General de la Nación) while their legal status is decided.[1][2] Police carried out the operations through surveillance, search, control and criminal investigation work aimed at striking drug trafficking that authorities say also finances illegal armed groups.[1]

The largest seizure in flagrante took place in the corregimiento of La Doctrina, a rural subdivision of the municipality of Lorica, where officers intercepted one man.[1] He was carrying a transparent plastic container with a red lid holding 12 marijuana cigarettes individually wrapped in aluminium foil, three medium blue zip-lock plastic bags of cocaine hydrochloride, and 13 small zip-lock bags of bazuco, a smokable coca paste.[1] Officers also seized 631,500 Colombian pesos in cash from him, which police attributed to drug sales.[1]

In Planeta Rica, police detained four men in the 12 de Enero, La Inmaculada, Santander and Gonzalo Mejía neighbourhoods and seized a combined 12.6 grams of marijuana, 3.8 grams of bazuco and 1.9 grams of coca base.[1][2] In the Villa Olímpica sector of Montelíbano, the Basic Criminal Investigation Unit (Unidad Básica de Investigación Criminal) arrested one man and seized eight grams of marijuana.[1][2] In the El Prado neighbourhood of Tierralta, Judicial Police (Policía Judicial) officers executed an arrest warrant against another man wanted for trafficking, manufacture or possession of narcotics.[1][2]

The Córdoba Police Department reported that so far in 2026 it had made 647 arrests for drug possession, a 50 percent increase over the same period the previous year, and had seized more than 755 kilograms of marijuana across the department.[1][2]