Meta traffic police said on 15 October 2026 that two stops at the Pipiral toll, on the Bogotá–Villavicencio road, had taken 464.700 grams of creepy cannabis and two drivers.[1] Both men were handed to the immediate-reaction prosecutors in Villavicencio.[1]
In the first stop, road police signalled a pickup driven by a 43-year-old man.[1] They found two striped tarpaulins and four packages wrapped in black film, holding 124.700 grams.[1] They arrested the driver and seized the pickup.[1]
In the second, they stopped a tractor-trailer driven by a 45-year-old man who was carrying 690 sacks of cement.[1] A hidden compartment held 340 kg of creepy cannabis.[1] Police seized the drug, the vehicle and the load, and put a value of about 520 million pesos on all of that together.[1]
The army, writing on 13 October, describes a stop the same day at the same toll, with traffic police, of a 45-year-old truck driver.[2] Troops of the 20th Airborne Infantry Battalion found ten bundles holding 332 packages, which they counted as 332 kg of creepy cannabis.[2] The police total of 464.700 grams is the figure used here.[1] Colonel Nelson Eduardo Zambrano Esguerra, commander of the Meta police, said the checks on the department’s roads would continue.[1]
