DLCN detectives and the Atlantic-coast prosecutor's office destroyed 9,900 marijuana plants on two plots in the village of Garay, Tocoa, Colón, on 4 August 2021. The Public Ministry said the investigation to identify those growing and trafficking the drug would continue.
🇭🇳 Aldea Garay, Tocoa, Colón · Honduras
Plants destroyed
9,900
Sites
2
Agencies
Dirección de Lucha Contra el Narcotráfico (DLCN), Fiscalía Regional de Litoral Atlántico
The Dirección de Lucha Contra el Narcotráfico (DLCN), Honduras’s directorate for
the fight against drug trafficking, working with the Fiscalía Regional de
Litoral Atlántico, the regional prosecutor’s office for the Atlantic coast,
seized and then eradicated a marijuana plantation in the department of Colón, on
the Caribbean coast of Honduras.[1]The Public Ministry said the eradication
was carried out on Wednesday, 4 August 2021, at a plantation that had just been
located in the department.[2]
Detectives of the DLCN anti-drug department found the plantings in a mountainous
area of aldea Garay, a village in the municipality of Tocoa.[3]The
cultivation was on two plots of land sown with the drug, the first of about half
a manzana and the second of two and a half manzanas.[1]
The authorities eradicated 9,900 marijuana plants in all, 900 from one plot and
9,000 from the other.[2]The DLCN said its investigation would continue in
order to identify the people or the criminal organisation harvesting and
trafficking the drug.[2]
Proceso Digital reported that, so far in 2021, the authorities had seized a
total of 17,520 pounds of marijuana and had cut and incinerated 120,262
marijuana plants, figures given as a national year-to-date total rather than as
the yield of the Garay plots.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Plants destroyed
9,900
Sites
2
Agencies
Dirección de Lucha Contra el Narcotráfico (DLCN); Fiscalía Regional de Litoral Atlántico
No weight or street value for the 9,900 plants was published.
No one was named, and no arrest, charge or court outcome was reported.
Hondudiario, published on the morning of 5 August 2021, described the eradication as having taken place in recent hours, while the Public Ministry said it was that Wednesday, 4 August 2021.
The area is given only in manzanas, about half a manzana and two and a half manzanas, and was not stated in hectares.
Hondudiario also reported a separate armed-forces seizure of about four manzanas of coca leaf in Iriona, Colón, days earlier; that is a different event and is not included here.
After locating two mountain plots in August 2026, Honduras's DNPA and special forces returned on 5 September to Los Zorros, Marale, incinerating about 12,000 marijuana plants on roughly three manzanas and destroying a rustic processing shelter, with the micro-trafficking prosecutor's office supervising. No arrests were reported.
On 31 May 2026 DNPA officers with investigations and community-security police dismantled a mountain plantation at El Chelón No. 2 in Guaimaca, destroying about 1,000 mature plants, 1,500 seedlings and packaged marijuana, and detaining a 29-year-old local man. La Tribuna said 80 pounds were hidden in a buried barrel.
Honduran military and anti-narcotics agents eradicated 2,957 suspected cannabis plants in Güiscoyol, Gualaco. The field covered about half a manzana, and no arrests were reported.
On 18 February 2026 Honduras's anti-drug directorate DLCN, with naval special forces and military intelligence, eradicated and burned 10,097 marijuana plants on about two manzanas at Las Minas aldea in Tocoa, Colón. The prosecution said the operation was part of ongoing work against cultivation networks; no arrests were reported.
