On 27 October 2026, Nicaragua’s National Police said officers at the El Guasaule border post in Chinandega found 608 rectangular packages with about 1,907 kg (4,204 lb) of cannabis in a freight truck.[1][2][3] The drugs were hidden among heat-insulation sheets and plastic strapping on a red Freightliner tractor with a white Great Dane trailer.[1][2]

Field tests and forensic tests confirmed marijuana, the police said.[1][2][3][4] They arrested the driver, Fredy Bladimiro Recinos Vargas, 52, from Guatemala, and seized the tractor and trailer.[1][2][3][4] Police said he had entered Mexico on 23 October, loaded at a logistics warehouse in Hidalgo, left Mexico on 24 October and was taking the cargo toward Costa Rica.[1][2][4] They presented him for organised crime and drug trafficking offences.[2]

Police also used the Scintrex Trace particle-detection technique on areas of the truck and the driver and found marijuana traces in the cab, gear lever, steering wheel and the detainee’s clothing.[3]