Over 10,000 drug wraps with marijuana seized in San Lorenzo home
Honduran National Police seized more than 10,000 wraps of suspected drugs, including marijuana alongside crack and cocaine, from a house in colonia Morazán, San Lorenzo. No suspects were detained as the main targets fled, though police say they have been identified; the combined haul was valued by police at more than two million lempiras.
No one was arrested in the San Lorenzo house operation.[1]Police said some of
the main targets fled after detecting the officers but have been fully
identified and could be captured in the coming hours.[1]Police added that
other people are wanted for investigation in connection with the case.[1]
National Police officers seized more than 10,000 wraps of suspected drugs in San
Lorenzo, Valle.[1]Officers found the drugs hidden in stashes, known as
caletas, inside a residence in colonia Morazán, according to Subinspector
Maldonado.[1]The Dirección Policial de Investigaciones (DPI), Honduras’s
investigative police directorate, joined preventive personnel in carrying out
the seizure after intelligence work.[1]
Police information presumptively linked the drugs to the criminal structure
known as MS-13.[1]Police presented the operation as part of actions to
dismantle criminal structures in southern Honduras, where intelligence work and
preventive patrols have been intensified.[1]Police said they will continue
strategies to locate and seize illicit substances and weaken groups linked to
drug trafficking.[1]
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Open questions the AI reported
No separate weight or count for the marijuana portion was published, only a combined total of more than 10,000 wraps, so no cannabis kilograms can be recorded.
The reported value of more than two million lempiras covers crack, marijuana and cocaine together and is therefore excluded from cannabis figures.
No number of fugitives or people wanted for investigation was published and no arrests were reported.
The article gives no separate date for the operation, so 1 April 2026 is its publication date used as the incident date.
The reported MS-13 control of the drugs is presumptive and remains an investigative line, not a proven finding.
Only one accessible outlet account of this event could be opened; no second source or agency statement was available.
No laboratory confirmation for the suspected drugs was reported.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Infobae: The haul included crack, marijuana and cocaine tips, which police valued at more than two million lempiras.
Honduras's police investigation directorate (DPI) burned more than 400 pounds (about 181 kg) of marijuana in Tegucigalpa on 30 October 2026, eight days after seizing it in Marale from a suspect it calls 'El Colocho' of the 'El Diablo' cartel. The man arrested with the load and an AR-15 rifle remains in custody.
DNPA and DNPSC officers seized 131 pounds of suspected marijuana and the transport vehicle on 22 October 2026 at La Bolsa in Tocoa, Colón, during Plan Operativo Escudo. FESCCO in La Ceiba took the case; no arrests were reported.
Honduran anti-drug police raided a property in Comayagua under a judicial order and arrested one man. The search found 45 wraps of suspected marijuana besides 299 wraps of suspected cocaine, phones, cash and a video recorder.
On 19 September 2026 DNPA anti-drug officers in Puerto Cortés, Cortés, searched a minibus and found 28 bales with 1,300 pounds of suspected marijuana, valued preliminarily above 10 million lempiras. They detained three men aged 29, 55 and 68 for aggravated drug trafficking.
