Three sentenced over 1.12 kg of marijuana outside Veraguas police station
Three people caught in front of the Veraguas police zone in Santiago with 1.12 kg of marijuana were convicted of aggravated possession. One man and the woman received seven years each and the third man received six years, with $7,596.50 confiscated.
🇵🇦 Zona de Policía de Veraguas, Santiago, Veraguas · Panama
Three people were apprehended in front of the Veraguas Police Zone facilities in
the district of Santiago, where authorities said they caught them in flagrante.[1]Those investigated held 1.12 kilograms of marijuana, according to the
Specialized Drug-Related Crimes Prosecutor’s Office.[1]
The procedure occurred on 10 August and ended with two men and one woman
convicted of aggravated possession of illicit substances.[1]One of the men
and the woman received 84 months in prison, equivalent to seven years, while the
third defendant received 72 months, or six years.[1]
Like the Chiriqui file, the Veraguas file advanced through a plea agreement,
unlike the Darien case which went to an oral trial.[1]The court also ordered
confiscation of $7,596.50 found on one of the convicted people at the time of
apprehension.[1]The Public Ministry did not detail what they were doing there
nor establish whether the seized money was directly related to a drug
transaction.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
3
Sentenced
3
Cannabis
1.12 kg
Cash confiscated
USD 7,596.5
Agency type
Police, Prosecutor
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis (1.12 kg)
Activity
Possession
Charge
aggravated possession of illicit substances
Case stage
Sentenced
Sentence
Prison
Region
Veraguas
Sources
Infobaeinfobae.comESColombianos y nicaragüenses figuran entre siete condenados por drogas en Panamá
Open questions the AI reported
No names, ages, nationalities or criminal records for the three convicted people were published.
10 August is given without a year; 2026 is inferred from the 13 August 2026 publication, and no separate sentencing date is given.
The 1.12 kg figure is attributed to the drug prosecutor with no laboratory confirmation reported.
No separate prison figure is recorded because two different terms were imposed: 84 months for two people and 72 months for the third.
Whether the $7,596.50 was linked to a drug transaction was not established in the published information.
The same article reports two separate events left out here: a Punta Burica boat with 2,313 packages of unspecified illicit substances and a Darien case with about 5.13 kg of marijuana.
The whole account rests on a single opened source with no independent corroboration found.
A man was sentenced to 96 months in prison in Panama on 11 November 2026 for aggravated drug possession, eight days after a search in the barriada Arboleda, La Chorrera, seized 83.20 grams of marijuana. The same search seized 469 packages of suspected cocaine, and the man was also fined USD 100.
A judge in Chiriquí approved a plea agreement on 5 October 2026 and sentenced three foreign nationals aged 27, 29 and 32 to 11 years for international drug trafficking, two days after the aeronaval service intercepted a boat carrying 2,852 packages of cannabis south of Punta Burica.
Two Colombian citizens were sentenced in Chiriquí to 150 months in prison for international drug trafficking after accepting a plea agreement. The case stemmed from a SENAN maritime interception on 17 December 2025 at Isla Montuosa, where officers seized 2,851 packages later confirmed as marijuana.
A Panama court sentenced two Colombian men to 13 years in prison for international drug trafficking and for altering a vehicle used to move drugs, the Public Ministry said. The case began on 12 March 2026 when a maritime patrol found them aboard a boat south of Punta Burica with 5.4 kg of marijuana and 621 g of cocaine.
