Nine months preventive prison for 476 kg marijuana haul in Huaytará
Peru's Huaytará provincial prosecutor's office won nine months of preventive prison for Elvis Clinton García Garamendi over transporting nearly half a tonne of drugs. Police found 476.70 kg of Cannabis sativa and 4.160 kg of cocaine in his truck near Libertadores, Huancavelica.
Peru’s Huaytará provincial prosecutor’s office won nine months of preventive
prison for Elvis Clinton García Garamendi, investigated for aggravated illicit
drug trafficking.[1]The measure was argued by provincial prosecutor Eduardo
Enrique Galán Pisfil before the Huaytará Preparatory Investigation Court, which
accepted his grave and well-founded elements of conviction linking García to the
drug transport.[1]
The investigation dates the events to 23 October 2026 at about 12:50, during an
interdiction operation run by DIRANDRO officers of the National Police near the
village of Libertadores, on the route towards Huaytará.[1]Officers stopped
vehicle AZI-757, driven by García and bound for Lima, and found 22 camouflage
sacks in the cargo area holding 25 packages of Cannabis sativa (marihuana) with
a total weight of 476.70 kilograms.[1]The same search found four brick-shaped
packages of cocaine alkaloid weighing 4.160 kilograms under the bunk mattress,
along with S/ 10,190.00 in cash and three mobile phones.[1]
The court ordered García held in preventive custody at the Chincha penitentiary
while the investigation continues.[1]
Case data
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Police in the Peruvian border town of Desaguadero intercepted a freight parcel containing over 64 kilograms of marijuana concealed inside a stamping machine at a transport company. A 29-year-old Bolivian woman was detained when she arrived to collect the shipment intended for Bolivia.
Anti-drug police in Iquitos stopped a motokar in Punchana district and found a backpack with ten packages of suspected marijuana, then detained the driver and his passenger. Both are under investigation for illicit drug trafficking, and the exact weight of the drug had not been established.
Police detained five men aged 22 to 26 during a raid on a building in the Unicreto estate in Nuevo Chimbote, Áncash, and found about 125 grams of marijuana alongside 45 bags of tusi, 19 ecstasy pills and ketamine. The group was accused of making and selling synthetic drugs in nightclubs, and the case was passed to the Public Prosecutor's Office.
Peruvian National Police detained two people, aged 23 and 74, in the Santa Isabel neighbourhood of Chachapoyas, Amazonas, on 4 November 2026. Officers found dental equipment, anaesthetics, phones, cash and a sealed bag of seeds suspected to be cannabis sativa, and handed the pair to the police criminal investigation division as they investigate illegal dentistry and possible drug trafficking.
