Guatemalan police burn 35,232 cannabis plants at Ixcoch, Petén
On 4 March 2026 SGAIA anti-narcotics police eradicated 35,232 growing marijuana plants at caserío Ixcoch in Las Cruces, Petén, which the Interior Ministry valued at about 17.6 million quetzales. No arrests were reported.
On Wednesday 4 March 2026, agents of SGAIA, the anti-narcotics analysis unit of Guatemala’s
national civil police, located and destroyed 35,232 marijuana plants in growing phase at
caserío Ixcoch in the municipality of Las Cruces, Petén.[1][2]
The Interior Ministry put the illegal crop’s estimated value at 17,616,000 quetzales (about
2.26 million US dollars at the rate cited in the release).[1][2]AGN reported that officers
destroyed the plants on site under standard eradication protocols.[2]
Neither release names arrests, cultivators or camp dismantled beyond the plantation itself.[1][2]
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Anti-narcotics personnel during the Ixcoch eradication.Photo details
Guatemala's anti-narcotics police eradicated and burned 8,820 mature cannabis plants near Ixcoch and Ixmucané in Las Cruces, Petén, on 25 October 2026. The agency valued the plants at Q4,410,000.
Guatemala's anti-narcotics police eradicated and burned 6,915 marijuana plants ready for harvest in the mountains of Momostenango, Totonicapán, on 23 October 2026. The National Civil Police valued the crop at 3,457,500 quetzales. No arrests were reported. The ministry named the site aldea Pamaría; other accounts of the same count call it Paraje Racaná.
Anti-narcotics police destroyed 19,420 cannabis plants near Momostenango, Totonicapán, and 15,143 in Ixmucané, Las Cruces, Petén, the Interior Ministry reported after weekend operations. Prosecutors supported the searches and eradication work. The operations applied the existing cultivation prohibition, which carries five to twenty years in prison plus a fine for unauthorised growing.
Guatemala's National Civil Police and Defense Ministry eradicated 7,920 cannabis plants on a 660-square-metre plot at Cooperativa Ixmucané, Las Cruces, on 3 October 2026. The police valued the crop at Q3,960,000.
