Three convicted after 212 cannabis plants found at Río Branco lab; 14.6 kg seized
Customs officers tried to stop two vehicles in Río Branco, Cerro Largo, and found 10.460 kilos of marijuana buds in one abandoned car; a raid on a farm in Isidoro Noblía turned up a clandestine grow with 212 plants and 4.178 kilos more. Three men were afterward convicted, two to two years and four months in prison and one to 20 months of probationary liberty.
🇺🇾 Río Branco and Isidoro Noblía, Cerro Largo · Uruguay
Arrested
3
Charged
3
Sentenced
3
Plants destroyed
212
Agencies
Dirección Nacional de Aduanas, Policía de Cerro Largo
Customs officers on a routine check in Río Branco, Cerro Largo department, tried
to stop two vehicles but one accelerated away and the second turned around and
fled back towards the city.[1]Cerro Largo police helped the customs staff and
found one of the cars abandoned in a dead-end street in the city, carrying
10.460 kilos of marijuana buds.[1]
By judicial order officers raided a farm, or chacra, in Isidoro Noblía with the
Unidad Investigativa II of the Cerro Largo police and found a clandestine
laboratory for growing and producing marijuana buds.[1]There they seized 212
cannabis plants, 4.178 kilograms of marijuana buds and six vehicles registered
in Brazil.[1]
Three men were detained; two were convicted and sentenced to two years and four
months in prison, and the third to 20 months in prison to be served under the
probationary regime known as libertad a prueba.[1]
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Arrested
3
Charged
3
Sentenced
3
Plants destroyed
212
Cannabis
14.638 kg
Sites
1
Prison
2 years 4 months in prison (two men); 20 months under probation (one man)
Vehicles confiscated
6
Agencies
Dirección Nacional de Aduanas; Policía de Cerro Largo
Agency type
Customs, Police
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis (14.638 kg); Living plants (212 plants)
Activity
Cultivation, Processing, Possession, Trafficking
Setting
Field, Farm, Vehicle
Grown
Outdoor
Charge
clandestine marijuana cultivation and production
Case stage
Sentenced
Sentence
Prison, Probation
Region
Cerro Largo
Sources
Teledoce.comteledoce.comESQuisieron escapar de un control, pero los encontraron: les incautaron cogollos y llegaron hasta su laboratorio clandestino de marihuana
Open questions the AI reported
The article gives no exact date for the check, the raid or the convictions; 17 September 2024 is inferred from the WhatsApp image filenames and customs handout date, and the article was published on 20 September.
The charges, the court and the legal basis for the two prison terms and the probationary sentence are not stated, and it is not said which accused received which term.
No street or weighed value of the marijuana is given, so no value is recorded.
The farm raid is described as ordered by the judiciary and carried out with the Unidad Investigativa II of the Cerro Largo police, but the article does not name the prosecuting or sentencing court.
The article does not state whether the 212 plants were uprooted or destroyed, nor whether the 10.460 kilos and 4.178 kilos are weighed totals.
The location of the clandestine laboratory is given as a chacra in Isidoro Noblía; coordinates are for that town, not the exact farm.
On 17 August 2026 prosecutors said three Uruguayan men had been sentenced, the longest term four years and four months, for exporting marijuana to Brazil with the Primeiro Comando da Capital. The cases followed five raids on 14 August. A fourth man was held until February 2027.
A court in Minas sentenced two men and a woman for producing and supplying cannabis buds from sites in Parque del Plata, Canelones, and La Unión, Montevideo. One man received three years in a rehabilitation centre; the other two received two years in prison.
PADO officers stopped a 19-year-old Brazilian man at the Chuy bus terminal with 2.966 kg of cannabis in a backpack. A Chuy court, in a shortened hearing, sentenced him to two years in prison and ordered his expulsion after the term.
Arrested 1Charged 1Cannabis 2.966 kgPrison 2 years
Police searched three homes at once in Rivera's barrio Lavalleja, seized 237 packets of a yellowish substance shown alongside marijuana in the police photos, 120 packets of pasta base, cash and phones, and detained six people including two teenagers. A court then convicted three adults on drug-supply charges and imposed 16 months of closed detention on the two adolescents.
