Specialist Carabineros officers of OS7 Coquimbo seized processed marijuana during a road check on Thursday in the Guanaqueros sector.[1][2][3] Officers carried out the check at the toll entrance to the coastal town, where they inspected a white Chevrolet Prisma and found containers holding a large drug load inside.[1][2][3] A second outlet confirms the Thursday operation took place at the toll entrance to the coastal town, where officers inspected a white Chevrolet Prisma.[4]

Officers recovered 206 kilos and 546 grams of processed marijuana packed in 198 packages and one bag.[1][2][3] Carabineros valued the load at more than 1,650 million pesos.[1][2] Police said the seizure kept more than 413,000 doses from reaching Coquimbo and cities in central and southern Chile.[1][2]

Carabineros said the Guanaqueros seizure brought its road-control seizures in the Coquimbo Region to more than 700 kilos of drugs over seven days.[1][2] The same week included a seizure of more than 30 kilos of marijuana at the region’s northern access by OS7 and the Elqui highway unit, plus operations in Choapa province that removed almost half a tonne of illicit substances.[1] Lieutenant Colonel Eugenio Olea of the Coquimbo Prefecture said road checks are a fundamental part of fighting drug trafficking and that police presence on the routes would be strengthened.[1]