12,000 marijuana plants incinerated after August find in Marale hills
After locating two mountain plots in August 2026, Honduras's DNPA and special forces returned on 5 September to Los Zorros, Marale, incinerating about 12,000 marijuana plants on roughly three manzanas and destroying a rustic processing shelter, with the micro-trafficking prosecutor's office supervising. No arrests were reported.
🇭🇳 Los Zorros, Marale, Francisco Morazán · Honduras
On Friday 5 September 2026 the National Anti-Drug Police Directorate (DNPA), with the
National Special Forces Directorate (DNFE), eradicated and incinerated two marijuana
plots at Los Zorros aldea in Marale municipality, Francisco Morazán department.[1]
La Tribuna said the fields covered about three manzanas and held roughly 12,000 plants
between 1.5 and 2 metres tall, and that officers also destroyed a rustic structure they
believed was used to process and store marijuana.[1]The micro-traffickingprosecutor’s
office accompanied the operation.[1]
The same newspaper had reported on 6 August that DNPA teams first located and secured the
two plots after intelligence work, counting about 12,000 plants in the same area and
seizing 20 pounds of dry marijuana in two sacks.[2]The September burn followed that
August find; neither story reports an arrest.[1][2]
La Tribuna published photographs of anti-drug police at the secured plots in August and
during the September eradication.[1][2]
No cultivator was identified in either account.[1][2]
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DNPA personnel during the September 2026 eradication at Los Zorros, Marale.Photo details
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Source: La TribunaAnti-drug police at the Los Zorros plots secured in August 2026 before the September burn.Photo details
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Plants destroyed
12,000
Agency type
Police, Prosecutor
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis
Activity
Cultivation
Setting
Field
Case stage
Under investigation
Sources
La Tribunalatribuna.hnESDNPA erradica 12 mil plantas de marihuana y destruye laboratorio rústico en Marale
La Tribunalatribuna.hnESDNPA localiza y asegura 12 mil plantas de supuesta marihuana en Marale
Open questions the AI reported
The August report spells the hamlet Los Zarros and the September piece Los Zorros; both describe the same aldea in Marale.
Agents secured 20 pounds of dry marijuana in sacks during the August visit; the September article does not say whether that material was also destroyed then.
Plant heights were estimated at 1.5 to 2 metres; no grower was named or arrested in either report.
The map uses Marale municipality; the mountain plots are not geolocated more precisely.
On 31 May 2026 DNPA officers with investigations and community-security police dismantled a mountain plantation at El Chelón No. 2 in Guaimaca, destroying about 1,000 mature plants, 1,500 seedlings and packaged marijuana, and detaining a 29-year-old local man. La Tribuna said 80 pounds were hidden in a buried barrel.
Honduran military and anti-narcotics agents eradicated 2,957 suspected cannabis plants in Güiscoyol, Gualaco. The field covered about half a manzana, and no arrests were reported.
On 18 February 2026 Honduras's anti-drug directorate DLCN, with naval special forces and military intelligence, eradicated and burned 10,097 marijuana plants on about two manzanas at Las Minas aldea in Tocoa, Colón. The prosecution said the operation was part of ongoing work against cultivation networks; no arrests were reported.
Honduran anti-drug police eradicated a plantation described as supposed marijuana in Aguacatal, Ojojona, and detained one person. The police post gives no plant count, weight, area or detainee details.
