89 arrested and 18,441 marijuana doses seized in Ibagué urban security sweep
Security forces with the Bloque Operativo de Seguridad Urbana carried out at least 30 raids in Ibagué, Tolima, arresting 89 people and seizing 18,441 doses of marijuana. Mayor Johana Aranda said the operations targeted criminal financing; 23 of the detainees were linked to drug trafficking.
Security forces in Ibagué, Tolima, arrested 89 people in at least 30
search-and-seizure operations carried out under the Bloque Operativo de
Seguridad Urbana, or BOSUR, with 51 detained in flagrancia and 38 under judicial
warrants.[1]Of the detainees, 23 were linked to drug trafficking, 25 to
homicide, 17 to theft, three to personal injury, two to illegal weapons
possession, one to femicide, one to conspiracy to commit crimes, one to
extortion and 16 to other offences.[1]
The authorities reported the seizure of 18,441 doses of marijuana, alongside
8,485 doses of other substances.[1]The other substances taken out of
circulation were 3,700 doses of cocaine, 4,720 doses of bazuco and 65 doses of
tussi, none of them cannabis.[1]Officers also seized three firearms, four
traumatic pistols and 12 cartridges, plus a car, a motorcycle, 36 mobile phones
and 14 million pesos in cash, and recovered six motorcycles.[1]
More than 500 National Police officers took part in the BOSUR intervention, with
support from the Attorney General’s Office, the armed forces, Migración
Colombia, the Public Ministry and Ibagué’s city hall.[2]Mayor Johana Aranda
said the operations were closing the net on criminality, striking its structures
and attacking its sources of financing.[1]Presenting the balance, the mayor
told offenders directly that in Ibagué the one who does it pays for it.[3]Municipal authorities said the interventions would continue in the city sectors
hit by microtrafficking and high-impact crime.[4]
Photos and video
Ibagué mayor Johana Aranda confronts a detained man during the presentation of the BOSUR operation results. Photo: Suministrada / El Nuevo DíaPhoto details
The reports give no separate dates for the 30 raids; 10 November 2026 is the date the municipal balance was published and is used as the incident date.
No weight in grams or kilograms was published for the marijuana, which is reported only as 18,441 doses, so no cannabis weight is recorded in the figures.
The 89 detentions cover several alleged offences across the city, with 23 people linked to drug trafficking; no cannabis-specific arrest count was reported.
The cocaine, bazuco and tussi seized in the same operations are not cannabis and are excluded from the cannabis figures.
The detainees were not named and no charging decision, custody ruling or court outcome was reported.
The reports give citywide figures without naming the neighbourhoods where the marijuana was found.
Córdoba police arrested seven people on drug-trafficking charges across Lorica, Planeta Rica, Montelíbano and Tierralta, seizing 20.6 grams of weighed marijuana and 12 marijuana cigarettes alongside cocaine, bazuco, coca base and cash. All seven detainees were placed at the disposal of the Fiscalía General de la Nación while their legal status is decided.
National Police arrested a 35-year-old man in the Oasis neighborhood of Rivera, Huila, seizing 57 marijuana cigarettes from his backpack during a Plan Cazador night patrol. He was placed at the disposal of the competent authority on suspicion of drug trafficking.
Police in Frontino, Antioquia, arrested a man in flagrante in the La Máquina sector after finding 219 grams of marijuana along with coca base and bazuco. He was placed at the disposal of local prosecutors on suspicion of trafficking, manufacturing or carrying narcotics.
Police in northern Bucaramanga arrested a 30-year-old man during a preventive patrol and found 230 grams of marijuana and 30 wraps of a cocaine derivative on him. He was held for drug trafficking and handed to the Attorney General's Office, which is to bring him before a judge.
