Carabineros seize 2,200 kg of drugs, mainly marijuana, in El Loa province; 29 held
Carabineros' OS7 section in El Loa province, Antofagasta region, detained 29 people during October 2026 and seized 2,200 kg of illegal drugs. The haul was mainly marijuana, along with coca paste, cocaine hydrochloride and ketamine, and the unit valued the whole load at more than 4,500 million pesos.
🇨🇱 El Loa province, Antofagasta region · Chile
- Arrested
- 29
Carabineros’ OS7 anti-drug section in El Loa province, Antofagasta region,
detained 29 people during October 2026, police said.[1] The force said the 29
were held for drug trafficking and included Chilean, Bolivian, Venezuelan and
Colombian nationals.[1]
The unit seized 2,200 kg of illegal drugs during the month, more than two
tonnes.[1] According to Carabineros, the haul consisted mainly of marijuana,
coca paste, cocaine hydrochloride and ketamine.[1] The 2,200 kg total covers
all of those drugs, not marijuana alone.[1]
Most of the drugs were intercepted in the border area, the force said.[2]
Officers also seized drugs during patrols, checks on passengers of
interprovincial buses and private vehicles, searches of homes and checks in
public streets.[1] The figures cover a month of separate operations across El
Loa, not a single raid.[1]
Sources
- Incautan 2.200 kilos de droga en El Loa, valorados en más de $4.500 millones. El Reporte Diario, 31 October 2026. In Spanish.
- Carabineros incautó más de dos toneladas de droga y detuvo a 29 personas durante octubre en El Loa. BioBioChile, 31 October 2026. In Spanish.
Open questions the AI reported
- The 2,200 kg is a combined total for marijuana, coca paste, cocaine hydrochloride and ketamine; no separate cannabis weight was published, so no cannabis kilogram figure is recorded.
- The 4,500 million peso valuation covers the whole mixed load, not cannabis alone, so it is described in the text but not recorded as a cannabis value.
- The sources report results for the whole of October and give no dates or places for individual seizures; 31 October is the announcement date used here.
- No names, charges, court dates or custody decisions were reported for the 29 detainees.
- El Reporte Diario's text closely follows BioBioChile's earlier report, so the two accounts are not independent.
- Neither page published a photograph of the October operations; BioBioChile's image is a file photo labelled 'Contexto', and the submitted page's lead image is titled 'portada-990' with no caption or credit.
- Both reports say the load was valued 'en el mercado legal' (on the legal market), an unusual formulation repeated here as published.
- The text gives a weight ("2,200 kg") but the figures have no kg_seized; check whether it belongs there.
- Left out, as its quotation was not found in BioBioChile: Carabineros' unit statistics put the whole load's value on the legal market at more than 4,500 million Chilean pesos.
