Amancio resident sentenced to 15 years for marijuana trafficking
A court in Las Tunas sentenced an Amancio resident to 15 years in prison for marijuana trafficking in Case 77 of 2025. Scent-trace and urine evidence linked him to three packages seized at his September 2024 arrest, and a prior similar conviction aggravated the sentence.
The First Criminal Chamber of the Provincial People’s Court of Las Tunas sentenced a resident of the Amancio municipality to 15 years in prison for traffickingCannabis indica, known as marijuana.[1][2]The case dated back to September 2024, when he was arrested in the city of Las Tunas carrying a considerable amount of national currency and three packages of chopped plant material, which he threw a few metres away at the moment of arrest.[1][2]Scent traces on the packages matched a sample taken from him, and his urine tested positive for marijuana.[1][2]The court treated his earlier conviction for a similar offence as aggravating, and added confiscation of the money from the drug sales and a ban on leaving the country while he serves the sentence.[1][2]Both the defendant and the prosecution may appeal.[1][2]
The trial was public and exemplary, held as part of the Fourth National Exercise for Crime Prevention and Control under the government’s zero-tolerance drug policy.[1][2]
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The convict's name was not published in either opened source.
No exact day for the sentence was stated; 27 September 2025 is the publication date of the first report.
No weight was given for the three packages of chopped plant material.
The original Periódico 26 account of Case 77 of 2025 was not directly opened; CubaHeadlines cites it as its origin.
Whether the photos on the source pages show this trial or the defendant is not established.
The CubaHeadlines page also mentions separate sentences in Holguín, Havana, Matanzas and Mayabeque, which are different events left out of this report.
A court in Las Tunas sentenced a man to 15 years in prison in Case 115 of 2026 for trafficking marijuana with cocaine and synthetic cannabinoids in the Mexico neighborhood. Electronic surveillance showed systematic selling, and the court added loss of public rights, confiscation and a travel ban under Cuba's Penal Code.
The Holguín provincial court sentenced an unnamed repeat offender to 14 years in prison on 28 April 2026 for cultivating and selling marijuana at Jagüeyes de Puerto Rico, Banes, where police had seized 429 plants weighing 2.42 kg and 11,280 pesos on his arrest in May 2025. Civil rights were revoked with a 14-year travel ban and cash confiscated.
Police detained two people in Ciego de Ávila with several pounds of marijuana hidden in sacks presented as chocolate and bound for Havana. The case was reported through an officialist Facebook account, with investigations continuing into the alleged network.
The Provincial People's Court of Santiago de Cuba sentenced a 55-year-old man to nine years in prison in case 64 of 2025 for bringing 230 grams of marihuana from Palma Soriano to sell at his home in Santiago de Cuba. He was stopped on 26 September 2024 with the drug in a backpack, and state media presented the ruling as exemplary.
