Honduras's anti-drug agency reports 1,652 lb of marijuana and 221,453 plants
Honduras's anti-drug directorate DLCN said authorities seized 1,652 pounds (about 749 kg) of marijuana and destroyed 221,453 marijuana plants in 18 months to May 2025, as part of a mixed haul valued at 42 million dollars. The figures were published as an official period result, with no break-up by case, department or date.
🇭🇳 Honduras
Plants destroyed
221,453
Cannabis
749.3 kg
Agencies
Dirección de Lucha Contra el Narcotráfico (DLCN), Ministerio Público de Honduras
Honduras’s Public Ministry said its anti-drug directorate, the DLCN, reported
that authorities seized1,652 pounds (about 749 kg) of marijuana in the previous
18 months.[1]In the same period the DLCN said 221,453 marijuana plants were
destroyed.[1]The DLCN put the market value of all the drugs seized in the
period at 1,092 million lempiras, or 42 million dollars.[1]The figures
covered a mixed haul: 4,296 kilograms of cocaine were seized and 574,508 coca
bushes destroyed, neither of which is counted as cannabis here.[1]
The DLCN, a specialised unit of the Public Ministry, reported the figures on
Tuesday 20 May 2025.[1]The anti-drug directorate published no break-up of the
cannabis by department, operation or date.[2]
Honduras remains a transit corridor for drugs moving from South America to the
United States, including through the Caribbean coast and La Mosquitia.[1]
Photos and video
Photo published with Proceso Digital's report on the DLCN figures, captioned only 'DLCN-marihuana'; no credit is given and the caption does not confirm which seizure or field it shows.Photo details
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Plants destroyed
221,453
Cannabis
749.3 kg
Value (official estimate)
USD 42,000,000
Agencies
Dirección de Lucha Contra el Narcotráfico (DLCN); Ministerio Público de Honduras
Agency type
Anti-narcotics agency, Prosecutor
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis (749.3 kg); Living plants (221,453 plants)
Activity
Trafficking, Cultivation
Setting
Field
Grown
Outdoor
Case stage
Under investigation
Region
Honduras
Date
Approximate
Sources
Proceso Digitalproceso.hnESHonduras decomisó en últimos 18 meses droga valorada en más de mil millones de lempiras
La Tribunalatribuna.hnESHonduras decomisa droga valorada en más de L1,092 millones en los últimos 18 meses
Open questions the AI reported
The DLCN gave no exact start or end date for the 18-month period, and the article does not say when it began; 20 May 2025, the day the figures were announced, is used as the incident date.
The figures are national totals for 18 months, with no break-up by case, department or operation, so they cannot be matched to individual seizures and eradications already recorded in the tracker.
The 1,652 pounds of marijuana is converted to about 749 kilograms; the article gives only pounds.
The 42 million dollar value covers all drugs seized in the period, including cocaine, and cannot be separated into a cannabis-only value.
The article does not say whether the marijuana was dried flower, resin or another product, nor the number of fields or people arrested or charged in the period.
The article credits the figures to the DLCN but its separate statement could not be opened; La Tribuna reproduces the same official figures.
The page image is captioned only 'DLCN-marihuana' with no credit and is not confirmed to show any specific seizure or field from the period.
Honduras's police investigation directorate (DPI) burned more than 400 pounds (about 181 kg) of marijuana in Tegucigalpa on 30 October 2026, eight days after seizing it in Marale from a suspect it calls 'El Colocho' of the 'El Diablo' cartel. The man arrested with the load and an AR-15 rifle remains in custody.
DNPA and DNPSC officers seized 131 pounds of suspected marijuana and the transport vehicle on 22 October 2026 at La Bolsa in Tocoa, Colón, during Plan Operativo Escudo. FESCCO in La Ceiba took the case; no arrests were reported.
Honduran anti-drug police raided a property in Comayagua under a judicial order and arrested one man. The search found 45 wraps of suspected marijuana besides 299 wraps of suspected cocaine, phones, cash and a video recorder.
On 19 September 2026 DNPA anti-drug officers in Puerto Cortés, Cortés, searched a minibus and found 28 bales with 1,300 pounds of suspected marijuana, valued preliminarily above 10 million lempiras. They detained three men aged 29, 55 and 68 for aggravated drug trafficking.
