23-year-old held as over 2 kg of marijuana seized in bus in Mostazal
Carabineros' OS-7 unit in Cachapoal detained a 23-year-old man after seizing more than two kilos of marijuana from an interprovincial bus at kilometre 58 of Ruta 5 Sur in Mostazal. Drug-detecting dog Kelsy alerted officers to the luggage, and the man was placed at the disposal of the Ministerio Público on a trafficking allegation.
🇨🇱 Kilometre 58 of Ruta 5 Sur, Mostazal, O'Higgins region · Chile
A 23-year-old man was detained during the early morning on suspicion of drug
trafficking after police seized more than two kilos of marijuana at kilometre 58
of Ruta 5 Sur in Mostazal.[1]Specialist officers of the OS-7 of Carabineros
of Cachapoal in the O’Higgins region carried out the operation.[2]The man was
placed at the disposal of the Ministerio Público, Chile’s public prosecutor’s
office, on a trafficking allegation.[2]
Officers seized more than two kilos of marijuana from an interprovincial bus
during the inspection.[3]The find occurred during routine inspections that
police carry out on interprovincial buses travelling on the highway.[2]The
drug-detecting dog Kelsy gave the key alert that led officers to the hidden drug
in the passenger bus.[2]After the dog’s alert, officers searched the luggage
and confirmed packages containing the drug.[2]
Carabineros said these deployments are part of permanent highway controls in the
O’Higgins region to prevent, detect and combat drug movements on major roads.[2]
Photos and video
VLN Radio 47-second short about the seizure of more than two kilos of marijuana in an interprovincial bus in Mostazal. Source: VLN Radio
Case data
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Arrested
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Activity
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El Tipógrafoeltipografo.clESIncautan más de dos kilos de marihuana y detienen a sujeto en control a bus interprovincial en Mostazal
VLN Radiovlnradio.clESCan detectora de drogas "Kelsy" permite incautar más de dos kilos de marihuana en bus interprovincial
VLN Radiovlnradio.clESIncautan más de dos kilos de marihuana en bus interprovincial
Open questions the AI reported
No exact weight beyond more than two kilos of marijuana was published, so no kilogram figure is recorded.
The sources give no separate calendar date for the early-morning operation; 11 November 2026, the publication date of all three reports, is used as the incident date.
The detained man was not named and no charges beyond alleged trafficking or court outcome were reported.
Neither the bus's origin and destination nor any value estimate for the drug was published.
The PDI intercepted 12 kilograms of cannabis sativa sent by parcel from the Metropolitan Region to Coyhaique and valued by police at more than 198 million pesos. Investigators say a prisoner serving a drug-trafficking sentence in Coyhaique prison coordinated the shipments, and the man arrested collecting the parcels was placed in preventive detention.
The PDI's anti-narcotics brigade in Calama seized 186 kg of pressed marijuana at a stash point in the border area near San Pedro de Atacama, a find the local prosecutor said came from the internal border task force. The PDI valued the load at 900 million pesos and said it would be destroyed.
Carabineros detained a 50-year-old driver at a vehicle check on the northern access to the Coquimbo Region and seized 30.36 kg of processed marijuana in 30 packages. The Tenencia Carreteras Elqui found two packages in the car and OS7 officers found another 28 a short distance from the check point.
Carabineros in Chile's Atacama region detained five Chilean adults after officers found 140 marijuana packages in two vehicles at a service station on Route 5 Norte in Chañaral, and seized 156 kg 692 g of marijuana. Prosecutors formalised trafficking charges against the five and a Chañaral court placed them all in preventive detention; Carabineros valued the haul at about 1.57 billion pesos.
