Army and police eradicate over 119,000 marijuana seedlings in the VRAEM
On 12 February 2026 Peru's defence ministry said the army's 2nd Wari Infantry Brigade and police eradicated more than 119,000 marijuana seedlings on three plots at Sarabamba in Anco district, La Mar province, in the VRAEM, and seized seven sacks from two clandestine storage sites. No arrests were reported.
Peru’s Ministry of Defence said that on 12 February 2026 the army, working with the National Police,
eradicated more than 119,000 marijuana seedlings at Sarabamba in Anco district, La Mar province,
Ayacucho, in the valley of the Apurímac, Ene and Mantaro rivers (VRAEM).[1][2]
Personnel from the 2nd Wari Infantry Brigade took part through a coordinated incursion with
Counterterrorism Battalion No. 34 and specialised police units.[1][2]The seedlings were spread
across three plots.[1][2]
Officers also dismantled two clandestine storage sites and seized seven sacks of illicit material.[1][2]The ministry linked the operation to wider pacification work in the VRAEM and did not report
arrests.[1][2]
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Soldiers and uprooted marijuana plants during the Sarabamba VRAEM operation.Photo details
The ministry gave no weight for the seedlings or for the seven seized sacks.
No arrests were reported.
The pin is the district seat of Anco; Sarabamba is not given a separate coordinate in the sources opened.
A different Joint Armed Forces Command notice describes another Sarabamba operation with 80,052 plants and 21.8 tonnes; that is treated as a separate event and left out here.
Police eradicated and burned 32,500 marijuana seedlings and seized about 621.7 kg of the drug in Yacopampa, Chugay district, La Libertad. They also disabled two collection and drying centres; no arrests were reported.
Peru's National Police burned more than 120,000 cannabis plants in three plots at Chambara Alto, Sayán. The three areas covered about six hectares, and no arrests were reported.
Peru's National Police carried out five interventions in Caucharatay, Chugay district, between 22 and 26 September 2025, eradicating 72,000 marijuana plants on two and a half hectares and destroying 723.8 kg of the drug valued at 206,760 soles. A separate Infobae account of the Chugay operation gives 49,000 plants, 200 kg and more than 500,000 soles.
Plants destroyed 72,000Area 2.5 haCannabis 723.8 kg
Peruvian police burned more than 50 tonnes of cannabis in a five-day operation across La Libertad and Huánuco, destroying a record 207,000 plants on 34.5 hectares in an operation the interior minister said beat the whole of 2011 seventeen times over.
