Police burn 6,915 marijuana plants at Momostenango
Guatemala's anti-narcotics police eradicated and burned 6,915 marijuana plants ready for harvest in the mountains of Momostenango, Totonicapán, on 23 October 2026. The National Civil Police valued the crop at 3,457,500 quetzales. No arrests were reported. The ministry named the site aldea Pamaría; other accounts of the same count call it Paraje Racaná.
Agents of the Subdirección General de Análisis de Información Antinarcótica, part of Guatemala’s National Civil Police, found and destroyed 6,915 marijuana plants in a mountain area of Momostenango, Totonicapán, on 23 October 2026.[1][2]The Interior Ministry said the plants were at the harvest stage, in aldea Pamaría, and put their value at 3,457,500 quetzales.[1]Prensa Libre, reporting the police account the same day, said the plants were eradicated and burned at caserío Paraje Racaná and that the crop could be worth about 3.4 million quetzales.[2]
The ministry said the plants were destroyed under its usual protocol.[1]Neither account names an arrest.[1][2]
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An officer in a dark uniform and bucket hat moves through tall cannabis plants, in the photograph Chapín TV published with its account of the Momostenango eradication.Photo details
The Interior Ministry places the field in aldea Pamaría. Prensa Libre, citing the National Civil Police, places the same 6,915 plants in caserío Paraje Racaná. This report uses the ministry's place name.
No one was reported arrested.
The map marks Momostenango municipality. Neither Pamaría nor Paraje Racaná was given a separate point in the geographic sources checked.
A weekend operation earlier in October that the ministry counted as 19,420 plants near Momostenango is a different event.
Guatemala's anti-narcotics police eradicated and burned 8,820 mature cannabis plants near Ixcoch and Ixmucané in Las Cruces, Petén, on 25 October 2026. The agency valued the plants at Q4,410,000.
Anti-narcotics police destroyed 19,420 cannabis plants near Momostenango, Totonicapán, and 15,143 in Ixmucané, Las Cruces, Petén, the Interior Ministry reported after weekend operations. Prosecutors supported the searches and eradication work. The operations applied the existing cultivation prohibition, which carries five to twenty years in prison plus a fine for unauthorised growing.
Guatemala's National Civil Police and Defense Ministry eradicated 7,920 cannabis plants on a 660-square-metre plot at Cooperativa Ixmucané, Las Cruces, on 3 October 2026. The police valued the crop at Q3,960,000.
On 20 September 2026 Guatemala's anti-narcotics police and the army destroyed 51,308 marijuana plants in Las Cruces, Petén — 38,400 at caserío La Bacadilla and 12,908 at Cooperativa Ixmucané — valued by the Interior Ministry at about 25.65 million quetzales. No arrests were reported.
