14 held as 237 cannabis plants seized in Los Ríos sweep
Carabineros detained 14 people during five extraordinary patrol rounds in Chile's Los Ríos Region in the last week before 2 November 2026. Officers seized 22 kg of unspecified drugs and 237 cannabis plants, valued together at 220 million pesos.
🇨🇱 Los Ríos Region · Chile
- Arrested
- 14
- Plants destroyed
- 237
Carabineros carried out five extraordinary rounds across the Los Ríos Region
during the last week, conducting 937 identity checks and detaining 14 people.[1] The operation was disclosed in the regional Police Committee balance headed
by presidential regional delegate Vicky Carrasco.[1] That balance also
reported an 11 percent decrease in serious crimes in the area during the period
evaluated.[1]
In those rounds, officers seized 22 kilograms of drugs and 237 cannabis plants.[1] That combined seizure was valued at 220 million pesos in the reported
balance.[1] The same balance put total seizures of illicit substances in Los
Ríos at more than one tonne so far in 2026.[1]
In the breakdown, the PDI reported 300 kilograms of drugs seized during the
year, while Carabineros reported more than 700 kilograms taken off the informal
market.[1] The 237 cannabis plants are the separately supported cannabis
component of this mixed seizure, while the 22-kilogram and annual weights cover
unspecified drugs.[1]
Sources
- Incautaciones de droga en la Región de Los Ríos superan la tonelada en lo que va de 2026. 24horas, 2 November 2026. In Spanish.
Open questions the AI reported
- The article gives only its publication date of 2 November 2026; the five rounds are dated only as during the last week, so the publication date is used as the incident date.
- The 22 kilograms are described only as droga with no drug-type breakdown, so they are excluded from cannabis figures.
- The 220 million peso valuation covers the combined 22 kilograms plus 237 plants and cannot be assigned to cannabis alone, so no value is recorded.
- The annual totals of more than one tonne, 300 kilograms by the PDI and more than 700 kilograms by Carabineros cover unspecified drugs and are excluded from cannabis figures.
- No names, charges or outcomes were published for the 14 detained people.
- No second corroborating source for this weekly operation was located.
- The page carries a lead image with no caption or credit establishing that it shows this seizure, so no media entry is added.
- Prison searches with phones, weapons and one kilogram of prohibited substances and livestock-control checks in the same article are separate events left out of this report.
- The text gives a weight ("22 kg") but the figures have no kg_seized; check whether it belongs there.
