2,500 marijuana plants and nursery destroyed at Guaimaca; one held
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.
🇭🇳 El Chelón No. 2, Guaimaca, Francisco Morazán · Honduras
On 31 May 2026 the National Anti-Drug Police Directorate (DNPA), with the Directorate of
Police Investigations and community-security police, raided a mountainside site at El Chelón
No. 2 aldea in Guaimaca municipality, Francisco Morazán department.[1][2]
La Tribuna reported that officers detained a 29-year-old man from the area and found about
1,500 seedlings roughly 30 centimetres tall and about 1,000 plants between 1.5 and 2 metres
high on roughly half a manzana where maize and beans had been grown before.[1]The paper said
40 plastic bags totalling about 80 pounds of marijuana were buried in a blue barrel.[1]
Tiempo gave the same plant counts and said more than 2,500 suspected marijuana plants were
secured together with the 80 pounds in bags, and that the drugs would be destroyed by the
authorities.[2]Neither outlet named the suspect.[1][2]
Both reports said DNPA, DPI and DNPSC took part after surveillance work, and Tiempo added
that a pistol, ammunition and a phone were seized for investigation.[1][2]
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Source: La TribunaPart of the marijuana secured before destruction at Guaimaca.Photo details
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Arrested
1
Plants destroyed
2,500
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis; Living plants (2,500 plants)
Activity
Cultivation
Setting
Forest or wild land
Case stage
Under investigation
Sources
La Tribunalatribuna.hnESCapturan aldeano con 2,500 plantas de “moña” y 80 libras de yerba encaletada
Tiempotiempo.hnESDesmantelan sembradío de supuesta marihuana y detienen a sospechoso en Guaimaca
Open questions the AI reported
Tiempo said the seized drugs would be destroyed by the authorities but did not say whether destruction happened the same day as the raid.
La Tribuna put the mature field on about half a manzana; neither outlet names the detained man.
Officers also seized a 9 mm pistol, ammunition and a phone; those items are not counted as cannabis figures here.
Later DNPA press releases in early June described roughly 1,000 bushes at the same aldea without mentioning an arrest; they appear to be agency summaries rather than a second raid and are not cited here.
The map uses Guaimaca municipality; the mountain plots are not geolocated more precisely.
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.
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.
Honduran anti-drug police eradicated a plantation described as supposed marijuana in Aguacatal, Ojojona, and detained one person. The police post gives no plant count, weight, area or detainee details.
