Two police officers held with 90 kg of marijuana in Pariacoto
Two serving National Police non-commissioned officers and a civilian were detained on 8 July 2025 in Pariacoto district, Huaraz province, carrying about 90 kg of marijuana in two cars. The officers, assigned to a Huánuco police station, were suspended from duty and prosecutors sought 18 months of preventive detention.
🇵🇪 El Milagro, Pariacoto district, Huaraz province, Áncash · Peru
Two serving National Police non-commissioned officers and a civilian were
detained on 8 July 2025 in Pariacoto district, Huaraz province, with about 90 kg
of marijuana in their vehicles.[1]The three were the PNP officers Benedicto
Paredes Espinoza, 29, and William Albino Nación, 40, both stationed in Huánuco
region, and civilian Piero Jesús Delgado Vía, 27.[2]Officers found 16
packages of marijuana weighing 90 kg in total, carrying the drug north from
Huánuco towards Chimbote.[2]
The stop was made at a spot known as El Milagro by personnel of the Pariacoto
police station, acting on intelligence about a drug shipment from central Peru.[2]Huaraz prosecutor Guillermo Lizarzaburu Palma said the load appeared to be
Cannabis sativa and that he was seeking preventive detention.[3]Lizarzaburu
said the detainees were held initially at Pariacoto police station and then
taken to the National Police anti-drug unit in Huaraz for the proceedings.[2]
Lizarzaburu said the officers were providing security for the civilian’s load;
the Huaraz criminal investigation chief, Nichols Javier Mori Oriundo, said the
civilian identified them as his escorts.[4]Chimbote’s discipline office
temporarily suspended the two officers from duty while the investigation
continues.[4]Huaraz Noticias said the hearing was set for Monday 21 July at
8:15 a.m. before judge Ventocilla Padilla Ramón Fischer at the transitional
preparatory investigation court.[5]
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Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
3
Cannabis
90 kg
Agency type
Police, Prosecutor
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis (90 kg)
Case stage
Under investigation
Sources
Infobaeinfobae.comESDos policías fueron capturados con marihuana en Áncash: operativo reveló red de traslado de droga que involucraba a uniformados
Agencia Andinaandina.peESÁncash: Policía Nacional detiene a dos agentes del orden y un civil con 90 kg de marihuana
Infobae said only that “varios kilos” (several kilos) of marijuana were seized and that the prosecutor gave no exact amount; the 90 kg figure comes from Andina and the two Huaraz-area outlets and is the one recorded.
Infobae describes the stop as taking place near the Pariacoto police station and says the prosecutor placed the intervention at Escoto police station, while the other outlets place it at the El Milagro sector in Pariacoto district; the report uses Pariacoto district and El Milagro.
Huaraz Noticias reported the seizure as more than 100 kilos of drug in one sentence, while its own account of the case and the other outlets give about 90 kilos.
Only the 21 July 2025 request for 18 months of preventive detention is recorded; no ruling on it, charges filed or trial outcome was found.
The two officers' ages and full names come from Andina alone, as reported in preliminary information.
No published street value for the 90 kg was found.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Agencia Andina: Police said the officers travelled in a car, plate W5A-210, acting as a security escort, while the marijuana was hidden in packages in a second car, plate AM-4740, driven by Delgado Vía.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Huaraz Noticias: The Public Ministry opened an investigation for suspected furthering of drug trafficking, and prosecutor Lizarzaburu said he would seek 18 months of preventive detention at a hearing in Huaraz.
Anti-drug police in Iquitos stopped a motokar in Punchana district and found a backpack with ten packages of suspected marijuana, then detained the driver and his passenger. Both are under investigation for illicit drug trafficking, and the exact weight of the drug had not been established.
Police detained five men aged 22 to 26 during a raid on a building in the Unicreto estate in Nuevo Chimbote, Áncash, and found about 125 grams of marijuana alongside 45 bags of tusi, 19 ecstasy pills and ketamine. The group was accused of making and selling synthetic drugs in nightclubs, and the case was passed to the Public Prosecutor's Office.
Peruvian National Police detained two people, aged 23 and 74, in the Santa Isabel neighbourhood of Chachapoyas, Amazonas, on 4 November 2026. Officers found dental equipment, anaesthetics, phones, cash and a sealed bag of seeds suspected to be cannabis sativa, and handed the pair to the police criminal investigation division as they investigate illegal dentistry and possible drug trafficking.
Police arrested three suspected members of two criminal gangs in operations in Ventanilla, Callao, and San Miguel, Lima, the Interior Ministry said. One of them, Jesús Ever Morán Villanueva, 20, was found with a bag holding about 500 grams of marijuana when he was detained in San Miguel.
