OS7 seizes about 1,650 kg of cannabis in Louis Vuitton-branded packs
On 10 September 2026 Chile's OS7 Carabineros and the Supraterritorial Prosecutor's Office announced the seizure of about 1,650 kg of cannabis sativa moved from Antofagasta toward Santiago for Fiestas Patrias sales, some in Louis Vuitton-logo packages. Four foreign nationals — two Venezuelan and two Colombian — were arrested after a monitored highway delivery.
🇨🇱 Santiago Metropolitan Region (cargo from Antofagasta) · Chile
At a 10 September 2026 press conference, Carabineros director general Marcelo Araya and Supraterritorial
prosecutor Miguel Ángel Orellana described an OS7 operation with the specialised prosecutor’s office
that seized more than 1,600 kilograms of marijuana bound for sale in the Santiago Metropolitan Region
during Fiestas Patrias.[1][2]
Security minister Martín Arrau put the haul near 1,650 kilograms of cannabis sativa and said
authorities valued it at more than 18 billion Chilean pesos on the illicit market.[1][2]Some of the
packages bore Louis Vuitton logos.[1]
Orellana said residual leads from earlier cases pointed to a large consignment entering through the
Antofagasta region and heading south.[1][2]OS7 used special techniques for an intelligent highway
follow rather than an immediate full stop, then arrested transporters, “spearhead” escort teams and a
person linked to financing.[1][2]
Four foreign nationals were detained: two Venezuelans and two Colombians.[1][2]
Photos and video
OS7 officers cuff a suspect beside a patrol car, and a cannabis bale wrapped with Louis Vuitton logos.Photo details
The PDI's anti-narcotics brigade in Calama seized 186 kg of pressed marijuana at a stash point in the border area near San Pedro de Atacama, a find the local prosecutor said came from the internal border task force. The PDI valued the load at 900 million pesos and said it would be destroyed.
Carabineros' OS-7 unit in Cachapoal detained a 23-year-old man after seizing more than two kilos of marijuana from an interprovincial bus at kilometre 58 of Ruta 5 Sur in Mostazal. Drug-detecting dog Kelsy alerted officers to the luggage, and the man was placed at the disposal of the Ministerio Público on a trafficking allegation.
Carabineros detained a 50-year-old driver at a vehicle check on the northern access to the Coquimbo Region and seized 30.36 kg of processed marijuana in 30 packages. The Tenencia Carreteras Elqui found two packages in the car and OS7 officers found another 28 a short distance from the check point.
Carabineros in Chile's Atacama region detained five Chilean adults after officers found 140 marijuana packages in two vehicles at a service station on Route 5 Norte in Chañaral, and seized 156 kg 692 g of marijuana. Prosecutors formalised trafficking charges against the five and a Chañaral court placed them all in preventive detention; Carabineros valued the haul at about 1.57 billion pesos.
