Three arrested in five Manizales raids; 256 g of marijuana seized
Police in Manizales arrested three men during five searches in the Bajo Prado and Persia neighbourhoods, part of an investigation into drug dealing in the city. Officers seized 256 grams of marijuana along with cocaine, bazuco, ecstasy pills, ammunition and 296,000 pesos in cash, and placed the three at the disposal of the courts.
🇨🇴 Bajo Prado and Persia neighbourhoods, Manizales, Caldas · Colombia
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Arrested
3
Cannabis
256 g
Sites
5
Cash confiscated
COP 296,000
Agencies
Policía Metropolitana de Manizales, Fiscalía Tercera Especializada de Manizales
Police in Manizales arrested three men in flagrante during five searches in the
Bajo Prado and Persia neighbourhoods, as part of an investigation into drug
dealing.[1]The Metropolitan Police of Manizales carried out the searches with
the Third Specialised Prosecutor’s Office, after investigative work and
information from a human source.[1]
Officers seized256 grams of marijuana, along with 70 grams of cocaine, 45 grams
of bazuco and 15 ecstasy pills.[1]Police also found three 12-gauge
cartridges, four digital scales, five mobile phones, packaging material and
296,000 pesos in cash.[1]The National Police’s own statement on the same
operations gives the same cannabis figure, 256 grams of marijuana seized in Bajo
Prado and Persia.[2]
The three were placed at the disposal of the judicial authorities on suspicion
of trafficking, manufacturing or carrying drugs, and of illegal possession of
firearms and ammunition.[1]Police said the three men, aged 44, 52 and 33,
together had more than nine entries in the SPOA, the criminal case-tracking
system, for offences including drug trafficking, conspiracy and domestic
violence, and noted that those entries are not convictions.[1]
The National Police said 946 people had been arrested in Manizales for drug
trafficking so far in 2026.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
3
Cannabis
256 g
Sites
5
Cash confiscated
COP 296,000
Agencies
Policía Metropolitana de Manizales; Fiscalía Tercera Especializada de Manizales
Agency type
Police, Prosecutor
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis (256 g)
Activity
Possession, Sale
Setting
Home
Charges
tráfico, fabricación o porte de estupefacientes; tráfico o porte ilegal de armas de fuego y municiones
The sources give no separate date for the searches; the National Police page is dated 10 September 2026 and says the operations took place in the previous 48 hours, so 10 September is used as the incident date.
The police summary reports the Bajo Prado and Persia searches as part of 48 hours of operations that also included unrelated arrests in Galán and La Galería; only the Bajo Prado and Persia searches are covered here.
The 256 grams is described only as marijuana, with no laboratory confirmation reported.
Only first names and ages of the three detainees were published, and no charging decision or court outcome had been reported.
The cocaine, bazuco and ecstasy quantities are not cannabis and are left out of the figures; no combined drug value was published.
The article mentions that five search warrants were executed in the two neighbourhoods but does not assign premises or quantities to individual addresses.
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