Investigators of the División Especializada en Investigación Criminal (DEIC), Guatemala’s specialist criminal-investigation division, captured two suspected drug distributors on the highway to El Salvador.[1] The detainees were identified as 33-year-old Gloria “N”, a Guatemalan woman, and 23-year-old Luis “N”, a Colombian man.[1] A second account gives their full names as Gloria Estefany De León de León and the Colombian Luis Aníbal Gutiérrez Rendon, aged 33 and 23 respectively.[2]

Officers intercepted the pair at kilometre 13 of the Carretera a El Salvador, in the jurisdiction of Santa Catarina Pinula, while they were travelling inside a van.[2] Guatemala’s National Civil Police (PNC) said the two were transporting 478 packets containing marijuana inside the van when DEIC investigators captured them at that spot.[1] The second account identifies the van as a Mazda CX5 with registration plate P-919LKH carrying the 478 marijuana packets.[2]

Officers also seized four mobile phones from the pair, which will undergo analysis to determine whether they strengthen the investigation into suspected membership of a drug-distribution gang.[2] Both accounts describe the pair as suspected distributors rather than convicted offenders.[1]