Three men held with 15 bags of marijuana at a Retalhuleu checkpoint
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.
🇬🇹 Puesto de Control Interinstitucional, km 185.3, Nuevo San Carlos, Retalhuleu · Guatemala
On 21 October 2026 the Public Ministry and Guatemala’s national civil police stopped a
vehicle at the inter-agency checkpoint at kilometre 185.3 of the CA-2 highway in Nuevo San
Carlos, Retalhuleu department.[1][2]
Officers found 15 plastic bags that field-tested as marijuana, prefilled cannabis
cigarettes, e-cigarettes and mobile phones, and arrested three men identified in official
posts as Carlos O., Kevin O. and Víctor M.[1]They were handed to the competent court.[1]
A local report from the same day named the detainees as Carlos Humberto Orozco Salazar, 39,
Kevin Junior Eduardo Oliva Morales, 33, and Víctor René Morales Hernández, 42, all
Guatemalans travelling in a pickup registered P-289KLW.[2]That account also described 15
packages of marijuana and additional cannabis cigarettes but did not give a total weight.[2]
The checkpoint sits on the main Pacific corridor toward Guatemala City; neither source said
who was meant to receive the drugs.[1][2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Prensa Libre and the Public Ministry gave only initials; a local report named Carlos Humberto Orozco Salazar, Kevin Junior Eduardo Oliva Morales and Víctor René Morales Hernández without matching them to those initials in the official posts.
None of the sources state the weight of the marijuana in kilograms.
Prensa Libre counted 150 e-cigarettes in 70 boxes and ten boxes of prerolled cannabis cigarettes; the local report said 60 cannabis cigarettes and six phones rather than seven.
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.
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.
