Three held as 1,184 kg of marijuana seized off Isla Jicarón
Colombia's police director, general William Salamanca, announced on 26 November 2024 that a joint operation south of Isla Jicarón, Veraguas, had seized 1,184 kilos of marijuana and 704 kilos of cocaine from a Go-Fast boat. Three people described as Nicaraguan and Costa Rican were captured and handed to Panamanian authorities.
🇵🇦 South of Isla Jicarón, Veraguas province, Panama
Colombia’s national police director, general William Salamanca, announced on 26
November 2024 that three people had been captured and 1,184 kilos of marijuana
seized aboard a Go-Fast boat.[1]The operation took place south of Isla
Jicarón, in Panama’s Veraguas province.[1]Salamanca said the three detainees
were of Nicaraguan and Costa Rican origin and were handed to Panamanian
authorities.[1]According to Salamanca, the crew was taking the load from La
Tola, Nariño, on Colombia’s Pacific coast, towards the United States via Panama
and Mexico.[1]
Colombia’s national police, the Attorney General’s Office, the U.S. Drug
Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Panama’s Servicio Nacional Aeronaval
(Senan), the aeronaval service, took part in the operation.[1]The same boat
also carried 704 kilos of cocaine hydrochloride, which is not counted in this
report.[1]
The article reports a separate Senan operation off Punta Mala, Los Santos
province, in which three Colombians were detained with 1,027 packages of drugs
of undetermined weight and type.[1]
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Photograph published by Colombia's police director, captioned as showing the 704 kilos of cocaine and 1,184 kilos of marijuana carried in the Go-Fast boat. Photo: @DirectorPolicia/XPhoto details
28-second clip titled “Incautación Dos Toneladas De Drogas En Frontera Con Panamá”, credited to Colombia's police director general William Salamanca's account @DirectorPolicia/X. Source: Infobae
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No exact date is given for the interception; 26 November 2024 is the day the announcement was made and is used as the incident date.
The article gives no package count, street value or separate figure for the marijuana seized.
The three detainees' nationalities are given only as Nicaraguan and Costa Rican, without identifying how many of each or their names.
No charges, court hearing or detention ruling was reported; Colombia's police director said the three were left with Panamanian authorities.
No separate statement by Panama's aeronaval service on this particular operation could be opened, and the only account is Infobae's report of the police director's social-media announcement.
The article separately reports a Senan seizure off Punta Mala, Los Santos, of 1,027 packages of undetermined weight and type, a different operation left out of this report.
The 704 kilos of cocaine hydrochloride carried on the same boat are excluded from cannabis figures.
Panama’s Senafront border service seized 914 rectangular packages of suspected marijuana in Playa Muerto, Darién, detaining two people. The operation also netted phones, GPS devices and a twin-engine boat, with detainees and evidence handed to prosecutors.
Interpol's six-week Operation Orca XI across 19 Latin American and Caribbean countries seized 38.5 tonnes of marijuana alongside other drugs and 3,308 illegal firearms, with more than 8,700 people detained. The marijuana was part of multi-drug seizures reported in 10 participating countries between 15 October and 30 November 2025.
Panama's border service Senafront and prosecutors seized 5,900 cylindrical capsules of suspected liquid THC in Clarita, Chepo district, during Operación Manto Oscuro. Suspects carrying three sacks fled into the jungle when challenged, and authorities valued the shipment at 500,000 balboas.
A court sentenced a man to 80 months in prison for cultivation and custody of marijuana seeds and plants under article 314 of the Penal Code, after police found 12 plants and 279 seeds in Los Santos.
