Border police dismantle a Liberia nursery with 197 cannabis plants
During a preventive patrol on 26 October 2026 Costa Rica’s border police, air surveillance and drug-control police, under Liberia prosecutors, raided a Cañas Dulces property used as a cannabis nursery, seized 197 plants and 50 kg of processed material and held a 40-year-old Colombian suspect named Samboni.
🇨🇷 Cañas Dulces district, Liberia canton, Guanacaste · Costa Rica
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Arrested
1
Plants destroyed
197
Cannabis
50 kg
Border Police officers on a preventive patrol, with air surveillance support, spotted a structure and
two containers holding cannabis plants in Cañas Dulces, in Liberia canton, Guanacaste.[1][2]Under
Liberia prosecutors they coordinated with the Drug Control Police to enter the property.[1][2]
Officers seized fifty kilograms of processed cannabis and buds and 197 marijuana plants ranging from
five centimetres to one metre tall, plus cultivation inputs, according to the Ministry of Public
Security accounts republished by CRinformativo and Amprensa.[1][2]
During the raid police apprehended a 40-year-old Colombian man surnamed Samboni as a suspect and
turned him over to Liberia prosecutors to determine his legal status.[1][2]The ministry release
carried on 26 October 2026 gave no further case details.[2]
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