Driver held as 21 marijuana bags found in truck cab in Pajapita
SGAIA anti-narcotics officers arrested a 33-year-old truck driver at kilometre 243.5 in Pajapita, San Marcos, after finding 21 bags of marijuana hidden in the cab's sleeping compartment. The drug-crime prosecution office said the 4 September inspection confirmed the drug by field test and seized the vehicle.
🇬🇹 km 243.5, aldea Palmeras, Pajapita, San Marcos · Guatemala
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Arrested
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Vehicles confiscated
1
Agencies
Subdirección General de Análisis de Información Antinarcótica (SGAIA), Fiscalía de Delitos de Narcoactividad
SGAIA anti-narcotics officers arrested 33-year-old Luis N at kilometre 243.5 in
Pajapita, San Marcos, after finding 21 bags of marijuana during the inspection
of a tractor-trailer.[1]The driver was travelling in heavy-transport truck
C-582BQF when officers inspected it.[2]The bags were hidden in the sleeping
compartment (camarote) of the truck.[3]
The joint inspection took place in the jurisdiction of aldea Palmeras,
municipality of Pajapita, on 4 September.[4]Inside the cab officers found two
cloth sacks holding 21 plastic bags of marijuana, identified by a field test.[4]Prosecutors detained the driver, seized the vehicle and packaged the
suspected drug for transfer.[4]The operation was led by the drug-traffickingprosecution office within the inter-institutional anti-narcotics centre CICNAG,
with SGAIA officers of the National Civil Police.[4]
The same news roundup separately reported the arrest of 18-year-old Yeison N, an
alleged Mara 18 member, in colonia Maya, zone 18, after shots were allegedly
fired, with a pistol, a magazine and 10 rounds seized.[1]It also reported
that 37-year-old Arturo N was detained in aldea Puerto Viejo, Iztapa, Escuintla,
on a homicide allegation, a separate non-cannabis case left out of this report.[1]
Photos and video
SGAIA agency photo published with its report on the Pajapita seizure of 21 marijuana bags. Photo: SGAIAPhoto details
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
1
Vehicles confiscated
1
Agencies
Subdirección General de Análisis de Información Antinarcótica (SGAIA); Fiscalía de Delitos de Narcoactividad
Agency type
Police, Anti-narcotics agency, Prosecutor
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis
Activity
Trafficking
Setting
Vehicle
Case stage
Under investigation
Region
San Marcos
Sources
Prensa Libreprensalibre.comESPNC captura a tres hombres por casos de armas, marihuana y homicidio en Guatemala
Policía Nacional Civil de Guatemala (PNC)x.comESEn el kilómetro 243.5, Pajapita, San Marcos, agentes de la #SGAIA capturaron a Luis “N”, de 33 años, quien se conducía en un cabezal C-582BQF
Ministerio Público de Guatemalax.comESLa Fiscalía de Delitos de Narcoactividad inspeccionó un vehículo de carga pesada en Pajapita, San Marcos, donde localizó 21 bolsas con marihuana
Open questions the AI reported
No weight was published for the 21 bags, so no kilogram figure is recorded.
Police and press identify the driver as Luis N while the Public Ministry identifies him as Luis V; the report uses the police rendering and notes the discrepancy.
No charges, court assignment or outcome were reported; the case stood at the investigation stage.
The sources give 4 September as the inspection date while the press roundup was published on 5 September; 4 September is used as the incident date.
The same roundup's arrests for alleged firearms possession in zone 18 and alleged homicide in Iztapa are separate non-cannabis events left out of this cannabis report.
On 21 October 2026 prosecutors and police at the Nuevo San Carlos inter-agency checkpoint on the CA-2 route arrested three Guatemalans in a pickup and seized 15 field-test-positive bags of marijuana, prefilled cannabis cigarettes, e-cigarettes and phones.
Police arrested Jaime “N”, 52, and Máximo “N”, 25, at a control post at kilometre 132.1 in Pasaco, Jutiapa, seizing 20 packages of marijuana plus two of crack and two phones. The men were moving a pickup on a tow truck, and both vehicles were impounded with the case sent to prosecutors.
Police arrested Zulmy Judith Méndez Díaz and Sandra Patricia Barillas del Cid as they tried to bring 15 packets of marijuana into the Las Gaviotas youth centre in Guatemala City for their detained sons. A duty court later bound both women over for trial on drug charges and ordered pretrial detention.
Guatemala's National Civil Police said officers arrested Alexis “N”, 25, in barrio Candelaria, Coatepeque, Quetzaltenango, on 27 September 2026 after finding four bags of marijuana in the pickup he was driving. The arrest was one of several the police reported that Sunday across five departments for crimes including kidnapping, extortion and fraud.
