One detained as police eradicate suspected marijuana crop in Ojojona
Honduran anti-drug police eradicated a plantation described as supposed marijuana in Aguacatal, Ojojona, and detained one person. The police post gives no plant count, weight, area or detainee details.
Honduras’s National Police anti-drug unit eradicated an illicit plantation it
described as supposed marijuana in the village of Aguacatal in the municipality
of Ojojona.[1]One person was detained during the operation.[1]
The police described the plants only as supposed marijuana, without reporting
any laboratory confirmation or test result.[1]The named site was aldea
Aguacatal, inside the municipality of Ojojona in the department of Francisco
Morazán.[1]
The account was published by the Policía Nacional de Honduras on its official
Facebook page.[1]The publication is timestamped Friday, 9 October 2020 at
5:20 AM, and no separate date for the field operation was given.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
After locating two mountain plots in August 2026, Honduras's DNPA and special forces returned on 5 September to Los Zorros, Marale, incinerating about 12,000 marijuana plants on roughly three manzanas and destroying a rustic processing shelter, with the micro-trafficking prosecutor's office supervising. No arrests were reported.
On 31 May 2026 DNPA officers with investigations and community-security police dismantled a mountain plantation at El Chelón No. 2 in Guaimaca, destroying about 1,000 mature plants, 1,500 seedlings and packaged marijuana, and detaining a 29-year-old local man. La Tribuna said 80 pounds were hidden in a buried barrel.
Honduran military and anti-narcotics agents eradicated 2,957 suspected cannabis plants in Güiscoyol, Gualaco. The field covered about half a manzana, and no arrests were reported.
On 18 February 2026 Honduras's anti-drug directorate DLCN, with naval special forces and military intelligence, eradicated and burned 10,097 marijuana plants on about two manzanas at Las Minas aldea in Tocoa, Colón. The prosecution said the operation was part of ongoing work against cultivation networks; no arrests were reported.
