SENAD seizes 1.75 tonnes of cannabis at a rural stash in Maracaná bound for Brazil
SENAD agents from Salto del Guairá searched a rural property at Maracaná, Canindeyú, on 30 September 2026 and took 478 kilograms of pressed marijuana hidden in the bush plus 1,275 kilograms of chopped cannabis in 51 bags, a supply point suspected of feeding the Brazilian market; the people running it fled and nobody was arrested.
🇵🇾 Maracaná, Canindeyú · Paraguay
- Cannabis
- 1.753 t
Special agents of Paraguay’s anti-drug agency SENAD, from the regional office at Salto del Guairá,
searched a rural property at Maracaná, in the department of Canindeyú, and seized 1,753 kilograms of
cannabis, local outlets reported on 30 September 2026.[1][2][3]
Hidden in a wooded part of the property were 478 kilograms of marijuana pressed into brick-shaped
bales ready for sale, together with 1,275 kilograms of chopped marijuana in 51 large sacks, showing
the site worked as a collection and pre-processing point; under the direction of anti-narcotics
prosecutor Juan Benegas, the fiscal-police team weighed samples in the field and moved the evidence
to the regional base for its definitive weighing and custody.[2][3]
Those responsible for the stash fled when the agents arrived and nobody was arrested; the seizure is
suspected to have hit a supply point feeding the drug market across the border in Brazil, and the
investigation continues to identify the property’s owners and the logistics network behind the load.[1][2]
Sources
- SENAD incauta casi 2 toneladas de marihuana en Canindeyú. Frontera Seca News, 30 September 2026. In Spanish. Archived copy.
- Agentes de la SENAD desarticulan punto de acopio de drogas en Canindeyú. 1000 Noticias, 30 September 2026. In Spanish.
- SENAD detecta carga de marihuana en zona rural de Maracaná. Portal de Curuguaty, 30 September 2026. In Spanish.
Open questions the AI reported
- One outlet's header dates the intervention to 30/07/26 while it and all the other accounts were published on 30 September 2026; the September date is used here.
- The exact farm in rural Maracaná was not named, so the pin sits at the town.
- No account gave a street value for the 1,753 kilograms, and the owners of the property had not been identified when the reports were filed.
- The page at Frontera Seca News carries a second SENAD photo of the intervention whose direct address is hotlink-blocked, so it is not listed as media.
