PDI seizes 62 cannabis plants at a Diaguitas home, one man held
A Chilean man was detained when PDI detectives seized 62 cannabis plants and processed cannabis at a home in Diaguitas, in Vicuña commune. The PDI valued the haul at more than 31 million pesos; the man was sent to the Vicuña guarantee court for a detention-control hearing.
🇨🇱 Diaguitas, Vicuña, Coquimbo Region · Chile
- Arrested
- 1
- Plants destroyed
- 62
- Value (official estimate)
- CLP 31,000,000
A man was detained when PDI detectives seized 62 cannabis plants and processed
cannabis at a home in Diaguitas, in Vicuña commune.[1] The plants stood
between 73 and 144 centimetres tall.[2] The PDI valued the plants and
processed cannabis at more than 31 million pesos.[3]
The search was carried out by detectives from the PDI’s Microtráfico Cero (MT-0)
unit and the Vicuña criminal investigation brigade (Bicrim), on instructions
from the local prosecutor’s office.[2] The inquiry began with a complaint by
the police unit itself, and detectives made what the PDI called a voluntary
entry and search of the home.[2]
The detained man was an adult Chilean who was caught in the act and held on
suspicion of an offence under Ley 20.000, Chile’s law against illicit drug
trafficking.[3] The case was passed to the Fiscalía de Flagrancias, the
flagrancy prosecutor’s office.[2] He was placed at the disposal of the Juzgado
de Garantía de Vicuña, the guarantee court, for a detention-control hearing.[3]
Sources
- Detectives MT-0 y de la Bicrim Vicuña incautaron 62 plantas de cannabis además de droga procesada en un domicilio de Diaguitas, con un avalúo superior a $31 millones. Un hombre fue detenido por infracción a la Ley 20.000 y pasará a control de detención.. PDI Coquimbo, 30 October 2026. In Spanish.
- PDI decomisa 62 plantas de cannabis en Diaguitas: droga supera los $31 millones. El Observatodo, 30 October 2026. In Spanish.
- PDI desbarata cultivo de marihuana en Vicuña: un detenido y más de $31 millones incautados. Radio Comunicativa, 30 October 2026. In Spanish.
Open questions the AI reported
- The reports give no separate date for the search; 30 October 2026 is the publication date of the news accounts and the PDI Coquimbo post.
- No weight was given for the processed cannabis, so the seizure is recorded by plant count and the PDI's peso valuation only.
- The reports do not say whether the man was charged or how the detention-control hearing ended.
- The local outlets repeat the PDI's account, and no independent reporting on the search was found.
- The photograph published with the article has no caption or credit, so it is linked without attribution.
