Woman held as 11.875 kg of pressed marijuana found in a bus at Nogales
Carabineros of the Hijuelas highway unit detained a woman on suspicion of drug trafficking after finding ten packages of pressed marijuana in the luggage of an interprovincial bus on Ruta 5 Norte at Nogales. Officers seized 11 kilos and 875 grams of pressed marijuana and placed the woman at the disposal of the Ministerio Público.
A woman was detained on suspicion of drug trafficking after Carabineros searched
an interprovincial bus on Ruta 5 Norte at the height of Nogales.[1][2]
During the inspection officers seized11 kilos and 875 grams of pressed
marijuana.[1][2][3]The officers found ten packages holding the drug in the bus’s
luggage.[1][2][3]
Officers from the Tenencia de Carreteras Hijuelas, a highway police unit,
carried out the check, according to Carabineros of the Valparaíso Region.[1]
The officers were drawn to the luggage by a strong smell of marijuana coming
from it.[1][2][3]
The woman was placed at the disposal of the Ministerio Público, Chile’s public
prosecutor’s office.[1][2][3]Carabineros did not state the bus’s origin or
destination.[1]
Photos and video
Photo published with the report on the Nogales bus inspection, filed as 'Droga incautada Nogales' (drugs seized in Nogales), showing the marijuana found in the luggage.Photo details
TUOPINAS.CLtuopinas.clESCasi 12 kilos de marihuana y 1.200 cajetillas de cigarrillos de contrabando fueron incautados en bus interprovincial en la Ruta 5 Norte
Open questions the AI reported
The accounts give no separate date for the bus inspection; 8 November 2026, the publication date of the Carabineros statement and the earliest news report, is used as the incident date.
No value estimate for the marijuana or the bus's origin and destination was published.
The woman is not named, no charges were specified beyond presumption of trafficking, and no court outcome was reported.
The lead photo is filed as 'Droga incautada Nogales' but has no caption confirming it depicts exactly this seizure.
The TuOpinas.cl account locates the check in Quillota Province without naming Nogales and also covers a separate bus check in which 1,200 packs of contraband cigarettes were seized, a non-cannabis event left out here.
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