One distributor alias Ñaña held with marijuana in San Miguel
Police followed Milton Orlando Hernández Alfaro, alias Ñaña, from a marijuana handover at the Nuevo Amanecer terminal in Soyapango and arrested him in San Miguel. A San Miguel peace court later ordered him held in provisional detention while prosecutors investigate the alleged distribution network.
🇸🇻 San Miguel, San Miguel department · El Salvador
National Civil Police officers captured Milton Orlando Hernández Alfaro, alias
Ñaña, in flagrante after an investigation.[1]Investigators linked him to the
same drug-distribution network as Iliana Iveth Chávez Hernández.[2]The
operation took place in the department of San Miguel after officers followed him
from a marijuana shipment he received at the Nuevo Amanecer terminal in
Soyapango.[1]
During the stop officers seized marijuana he was allegedly carrying to
distribute in different communities.[1]The later search found a plastic bag
holding different portions of marijuana apparently ready for distribution, plus
a mobile phone and cash.[3]The Third Peace Court of San Miguel validated the
prosecution evidence at the initial hearing and ordered him held in provisional
detention while the investigation continues.[3]The Attorney General’s Office
said he will remain in provisional detention during the investigation into drug
selling in the east of the country.[3]
Villatoro also reported that Iliana Iveth Chávez Hernández, the alleged network
leader, had been detained the previous May in San Miguel while allegedly
carrying 2,500 grams of marijuana valued by authorities at $8,000.[4]Security
Minister Gustavo Villatoro said the state holds territorial control and is
confronting the scourge head-on without stepping back.[1]Villatoro said years
of clandestine drug selling had ended for the detainee and warned that a decade
behind bars awaited him.[2]
Case data
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Diario1diario1.comESAcusado de vender droga seguirá en prisión provisional
La Prensa Gráficalaprensagrafica.comESCapturan en Guatemala a salvadoreño señalado de coordinar traslado de droga desde México - La Prensa Gráfica
Open questions the AI reported
No weight for the marijuana seized from Hernández Alfaro was published, only portions in a plastic bag, so no kilograms can be recorded.
The 2,500 grams valued at $8,000 belongs to Iliana Iveth Chávez Hernández's separate May detention and is excluded from this report's figures.
No separate raid date was published; 24 July 2026, the publication date of the first corroborating account for a Friday procedure, is used as the incident date.
No court outcome beyond provisional detention has been reported; the minister's warning of a decade behind bars is not an imposed sentence.
All accounts repeat the official police and minister version; no statement from the detainee was published.
El Salvador's Attorney General's Office and National Civil Police arrested a 41-year-old man at his home in the residencial Santa Teresa in Santa Tecla, La Libertad Sur, on 6 November 2026, seizing portions of marijuana and cocaine along with grinders, pipes, a scale and two phones. Police said he would be sent to the courts for illicit drug trafficking; no weights or court outcome were reported.
National Civil Police agents arrested César Danilo López Hernández, 34, inside a higher-education centre in San Salvador on 6 November 2026, saying he carried marijuana and cash hidden in a backpack and tried to flee. Police did not identify the university or give the amount of marijuana or money, and said he will be referred for possession and holding with intent to traffic.
El Salvador's Attorney General's Office and National Civil Police carried out five raids in San Salvador Centro and arrested a man and a woman accused of forcing minors to sell drugs, with a third arrest warrant outstanding. Investigators said the case began in October 2026 when a 15-year-old caught selling drugs told officers adults beat him and made him distribute the substances.
El Salvador's National Civil Police arrested 21-year-old Ederson Stanley Santos Bermúdez in the Mejicanos district of San Salvador Centro on 4 November 2026 and seized several bags of marijuana it said were prepared for sale, plus a mobile phone. He was to be referred for possession and holding of drugs, with no weight or court outcome reported.
