FELCN destroys 25 tonnes of cannabis and artisan lab at Mojón K'asa, Potosí
On 3 March 2026 Bolivia's FELCN eradicated about 25 tonnes of raw marijuana on 3.75 hectares at Mojón K'asa near Toro Toro, burned an artisan processing lab with washing machines and tanks, and found no one to arrest after traffickers fled.
🇧🇴 Mojón K'asa, Toro Toro, Potosí Department · Bolivia
On the morning of 3 March 2026 the FELCN anti-drug force, with staff from its Cochabamba
directorate, swept hills, rivers and ravines around Mojón K’asa in Toro Toro municipality,
Potosí department.[1][2]They found a marijuana plantation covering about 37,500 square
metres (roughly 3.75 hectares), field-tested the plants, cut bushes up to three metres tall,
and incinerated an estimated 25 tonnes of raw marijuana on the spot.[1][2]
In the same area they destroyed a rustic building used to process and store drugs, including
what authorities described as an artisan lab for concentrated marijuana.[1][2]Officers
burned eleven plastic washing machines, four 650-litre water tanks, four chest freezers, ten
jute sacks of marijuana, and other drying and storage kit, and sent the case to prosecutors.[1][2]
Vice-Minister Ernesto Justiniano said the site was organised to raise the commercial value of
the crop rather than a standalone field.[2]eju.tv reported that traffickers fled when they
saw police and that nobody was arrested.[1]
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Marijuana plots destroyed by FELCN at Mojón K'asaPhoto details
ABI dated the announcement on 4 March 2026 while eju.tv reported the raid on the morning of Tuesday 3 March; the operation day is taken from the latter.
No suspects were detained and the outlets did not name any organisation behind the site.
Bolivia's anti-drug force FELCN found dried marijuana and standing cannabis plants at La Angostura, in El Torno, Santa Cruz, and burned more than 90 tonnes. The published accounts name no arrests and give no separate date for the operation.
Prosecutors and FELCN burned 36 irrigated greenhouses of cannabis near Laguna Lagunillas, in Machacamarca, Potosí, on the night of 11 March. The Oruro prosecutor put the plants at about 12,600 kilograms.
Bolivian anti-drug forces destroyed 20 marijuana nurseries in Lagunillas, in Rafael Bustillos province, northern Potosí, in an operation before dawn on 19 January 2026. The deputy ministry for controlled substances valued the crop destroyed at 10.7 million dollars and reported that local residents set off dynamite during the burning.
Bolivia's FELCN found and incinerated 63 marijuana nurseries holding an estimated 14.5 tonnes in the Lagunillas highlands near Llallagua, Potosí, in what the government minister called a historic first planned entry into the area.
