Three captured in San Jacinto raids with marijuana portions seized
El Salvador's Attorney General's Office said it captured three people it accuses of distributing and selling drugs across the country, using the San Jacinto neighbourhood of San Salvador as their operations centre. Searches in the area turned up portions of marijuana, cash, a firearm with ammunition, a scale, a grinder, phones and a tablet, and the three were to be handed to the courts.
El Salvador’s Attorney General’s Office announced the capture of three people it
accused of dedicating themselves to distributing and selling drugs in different
sectors of the country.[1]The Fiscalía General de la República (FGR) named
them as Gerardo Borja Pineda, Jesse Cortez Rodríguez and Roxana Bejarano Rivas.[1]According to the investigations, the detainees had used the San Jacinto
neighbourhood in San Salvador as an operations centre for dosing and
distributing narcotics to other departments.[1]
As part of the procedure the FGR carried out several searches in the area, where
various items were located and seized that would strengthen the investigation.[1]Among what was confiscated were portions of marijuana, cash, a firearm with
its magazine and ammunition, a scale, a grinder, mobile phones and a tablet.[1]
The Fiscalía said the three captured would be placed at the disposal of the
corresponding courts in the coming days to face judicial proceedings for the
offences attributed to them.[1]
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The article gives no separate date for the captures or the searches; 2 July 2026 is its publication date and is used as the incident date.
No weight or number of marijuana portions was published, so no cannabis quantity is recorded.
The amount of cash seized was not stated.
The charge is described only as distributing and selling drugs, without naming the substances; marijuana is the only cannabis item listed among the seizures.
The number of searches carried out in the neighbourhood was not given.
No formal charges, measure of restraint or court outcome had been reported when the article was published.
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