Driver held as 932 kg of marijuana found in trailer container in Sampués
Police in Sampués, Sucre, seized 932 kilograms of marijuana from a double-walled compartment inside a tractor-trailer container on the night of 14 June 2026 and detained the driver, Víctor Manuel Gutiérrez Rodríguez. A judge sent him to prison at the Fiscalía's request; the load was bound for Cartagena and, according to El Meridiano, onward shipment abroad.
🇨🇴 Sampués, Sucre, on the Sincelejo–Sampués road · Colombia
Police in Sucre reported the seizure of 932 kilograms of marijuana hidden in a
container on the night of 14 June 2026 in Sampués.[1]The driver, Víctor
Manuel Gutiérrez Rodríguez, was detained in flagrante on the Sincelejo–Sampués
road in an operation by the Seccional de Tránsito y Transporte de Sucre.[2]He
told officers the container was empty, but the smell of the load gave it away
once they opened the doors.[3]A judge sent him to prison at the request of
the Fiscalía, the Attorney General’s Office.[3]
The marijuana was packed in 64 packages hidden in a container travelling the
Medellín–Cartagena route.[3]The drug travelled in a sophisticated
double-walled compartment, known in Colombia as a caleta, built inside the
tractor-trailer and was bound for Cartagena and onward shipment abroad.[2]El
Heraldo put the load’s value at more than 7,000 million pesos.[3]The police
announcement placed the operation on the Planeta Rica–Sincelejo road and dated
it 14 June 2026.[4]
The vehicle was stopped at a control point on the route linking Antioquia and
Bolívar, and the driver was to be prosecuted for drug trafficking.[1]Infobae
recorded that the truck driver was captured and would be processed for the crime
of drug trafficking.[1]Defence Minister Pedro Arnulfo Sánchez called the
seizure a blow to the illicit economies and criminal networks that seek to
finance violence and organised crime.[1]The National Police said it would
keep strengthening operational and investigative work on the country’s strategic
road corridors.[4]
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Source: InfobaeSecurity forces at the intercepted shipment on the Medellín–Cartagena route. Photo: @PedroSanchezCol/XPhoto details
Infobae places the stop on the route between Antioquia and Bolívar, while El Meridiano and the police post place it on the Sampués–Sincelejo or Planeta Rica–Sincelejo corridor; the precise control point is not named.
Sources give the weight as 932 kilograms and, in Análisis Urbano, as 932.064 grams in 64 packages; the report uses 932 kg and does not establish whether packaging is included.
El Heraldo says the load was worth more than 7,000 million pesos, while Análisis Urbano cites an impact of about 7,456 million pesos; the report uses the El Heraldo wording and records no value figure.
No charge sheet or trial date is reported; the only court step recorded is the prison custody order.
The Infobae article also reports a separate 514 kg marijuana seizure in El Restrepo, Bogotá, on 29 May 2026, a different event left out of this report.
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