Ñuble OS7 reports 33,758 cannabis plants destroyed and 286 held in 2026
Carabineros' OS7 anti-drug unit in the Ñuble region reported seizing 33,758 cannabis plants between 1 January and 6 November 2026, up from 2,023 in the same period of 2025. It also recorded 286 arrests, including 16 for marijuana growing, as the speciality marked its 53rd anniversary.
Carabineros’ anti-drug investigation department OS7 released results covering
its work in the Ñuble region between 1 January and 6 November 2026, as the
speciality marked its 53rd anniversary on 8 November.[1]
The unit said it destroyed 33,758 cannabis plants in 2026, against 2,023 in the
same period of 2025, a rise it put at 1,569 percent.[1][2]Officers detained 286
people, ten more than in 2025, including 16 held for growing marijuana, 66 for
street-level dealing and 86 for drug trafficking.[1][2]The OS7 said it carried
out 199 anti-drug operations and broke up 14 criminal organisations, against 11
in 2025.[3]Alongside the cannabis figures, the unit reported the confiscation
of 17 ecstasy pills, 2.523 kilograms of ketamine and small amounts of
methamphetamine.[1][2]
The 430 kilograms the OS7 reported covers all of the main drugs it seized, not
cannabis alone, and Radio Contacto did not break the total down by substance.[1]The OS7 was created on 8 November 1973 as Carabineros’ Seventh Special
Investigations Section, and has had a unit in Ñuble since the region was created
in 2018.[1]
Photos and video
Photo published with the Ñuble Actual account of the OS7 anniversary, captioned only by the file name OS7 CARABINEROS; no caption or credit confirms which operation or seizure it shows.Photo details
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
286
Plants destroyed
33,758
Agency
Carabineros (OS7)
Agency type
Police, Anti-narcotics agency
Cannabis
Living plants (33,758 plants)
Activity
Cultivation
Setting
Field, Forest or wild land
Operation
1 Jan 2026 – 6 Nov 2026
Region
Ñuble
Date
Approximate
Sources
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Open questions the AI reported
The article gives no date for individual seizures or eradications and its figures are a year-to-date balance; 8 November 2026, the anniversary date, is used as the incident date.
The 430 kilograms of drugs seized and the 286 arrests cover all drugs the unit handled, not cannabis alone; only the 33,758 plants and the 16 marijuana-cultivation arrests are cannabis-specific.
No weight of seized or destroyed cannabis, no area cleared, no number of cultivation sites and no value estimate were published for the plant and other drug figures.
The figures cover 1 January to 6 November 2026 and the 2025 comparisons cover that same partial period, not full calendar years.
The photo with the Ñuble Actual story is captioned only by its file name and no caption or credit confirms which operation or seizure it shows, so it is described as published and not as a picture of a specific seizure.
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' 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.
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.
