PDI seizes 12 kg of cannabis sent in parcels to Coyhaique; one held
The PDI intercepted 12 kilograms of cannabis sativa sent by parcel from the Metropolitan Region to Coyhaique and valued by police at more than 198 million pesos. Investigators say a prisoner serving a drug-trafficking sentence in Coyhaique prison coordinated the shipments, and the man arrested collecting the parcels was placed in preventive detention.
🇨🇱 Coyhaique, Aysén region · Chile
Arrested
1
Charged
1
Cannabis
12 kg
Agencies
🇨🇱PDI, Aysén Public Prosecutor's Office (Ministerio Público)
Detectives of the Policía de Investigaciones (PDI) arrested a Chilean man in
Coyhaique as he was about to collect parcels carrying cannabis.[1]Investigators identified him as the final recipient of the drug in the region.[1]At a formalisation hearing, a court placed him in preventive detention.[2]According to the investigation, a Chilean inmate already serving a sentence
for drug trafficking coordinated the shipments from inside Coyhaique prison.[1]Radio Santa María described the prisoner as the leader of the criminal
structure, operating from inside the jail.[2]
The PDI and the Aysén public prosecutor’s office said the organisation used
legitimate freight companies and parcel services, hiding the cannabis among
ordinary consignments sent from the Metropolitan Region to Patagonia.[1]Investigators used special techniques under Law 20,000, Chile’s drug-trafficking
law, to identify the final recipient and the person coordinating the transfer
from the capital.[1]Prefect Eduardo Gatica, head of the PDI’s Coyhaique
provincial prefecture, said the cannabis was intended for distribution to young
people in the city.[1]According to the investigation, the arrested man
intended to store the cannabis and sell it in small quantities, known in Chile
as microtráfico.[1]
The load weighed 12 kilograms of cannabis sativa, which the PDI said was
equivalent to more than 120,000 doses.[1]The PDI valued the cannabis at more
than 198 million pesos.[3]Gatica said the operation had kept the drug out of
the region’s distribution circuit.[1]
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Diario El Divisaderoeldivisadero.clESDesde la cárcel de Coyhaique coordinaban el envío de droga: PDI decomisa cannabis avaluada en 198 millones de pesos
Radio Santa Maríaradiosantamaria.clESIncautan 12 kilos de droga: Traslado y distribución era articulado desde el interior de la cárcel de Coyhaique
Radio Las Nievesrln.clESPDI incauta 12 kilos de droga avaluados en casi 200 millones de pesos en Coyhaique
Open questions the AI reported
The reports were published on 11 November 2026 and give no separate date for the arrest or the formalisation hearing, so 11 November is the publication date.
The arrested man's name and age were not published.
The inmate is identified only as a Chilean man serving a drug-trafficking sentence in Coyhaique prison; the reports do not say whether he was charged over these shipments.
The accounts reproduce the PDI's statement; no court record or independent reporting was found.
The 198 million peso value and the 120,000 doses are police estimates, not independently confirmed.
The reports do not say how many parcels were intercepted or their individual weights.
The exact place in Coyhaique where the man was detained is not given.
The PDI's anti-narcotics brigade in Calama seized 186 kg of pressed marijuana at a stash point in the border area near San Pedro de Atacama, a find the local prosecutor said came from the internal border task force. The PDI valued the load at 900 million pesos and said it would be destroyed.
Carabineros' OS-7 unit in Cachapoal detained a 23-year-old man after seizing more than two kilos of marijuana from an interprovincial bus at kilometre 58 of Ruta 5 Sur in Mostazal. Drug-detecting dog Kelsy alerted officers to the luggage, and the man was placed at the disposal of the Ministerio Público on a trafficking allegation.
Carabineros detained a 50-year-old driver at a vehicle check on the northern access to the Coquimbo Region and seized 30.36 kg of processed marijuana in 30 packages. The Tenencia Carreteras Elqui found two packages in the car and OS7 officers found another 28 a short distance from the check point.
Carabineros in Chile's Atacama region detained five Chilean adults after officers found 140 marijuana packages in two vehicles at a service station on Route 5 Norte in Chañaral, and seized 156 kg 692 g of marijuana. Prosecutors formalised trafficking charges against the five and a Chañaral court placed them all in preventive detention; Carabineros valued the haul at about 1.57 billion pesos.
