Jalisco police burn about 52,500 marijuana plants at Cerro Colorado, Tequila
Jalisco state police found about 52,500 marijuana plants at a property in the Cerro Colorado area of Tequila, near the village of San José de la Barranca, and burned them on a federal prosecutor's order. The Secretaría de Seguridad said the operation was at least the fifth plantation destroyed in the municipality since August, with just over 600,000 plants destroyed across the five.
🇲🇽 Cerro Colorado, near San José de la Barranca, Tequila, Jalisco · Mexico
Jalisco state police officers found the plantation while on surveillance patrols
in upland areas, tracks and delegations with the Defence Ministry and the
National Guard.[1]The plantation was in the Cerro Colorado area, about three
kilometres from the village of San José de la Barranca in Tequila municipality.[1]The property lies in the Valles region of Jalisco, the Secretaría de
Seguridad said.[1]The plot held an estimated 52,500 plants at a density of
about seven per square metre, with an average height of 1.70 metres and the
plants in active growth.[1]
The Secretaría de Seguridad, Jalisco’s state security ministry, said a federal
public prosecutor ordered the crop destroyed by controlled burning.[2]Officers took representative samples and made a photographic record of the
procedure before the burn.[1]The ministry said the operation was at least the
fifth marijuana plantation destroyed in Tequila since August.[1]It put the
total destroyed across the five operations at just over 600,000 plants.[1]
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A person stands among tall cannabis plants at the Cerro Colorado plantation in Tequila, in a Secretaría de Seguridad Jalisco handout photo published with the report. Photo: SSEPhoto details
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Source: El InformadorSmoke rises from burning vegetation at the Tequila plantation, with a person standing nearby, in a Secretaría de Seguridad Jalisco handout photo published with the report. Photo: SSEPhoto details
The Secretaría de Seguridad gave no separate date for the patrol or the burn; 2 October 2026 is the day it announced the find and the date of publication.
The 52,500 figure is an estimate based on a density of about seven plants per square metre, not an exact count.
No area in square metres or hectares was published for the plot, so no area is recorded.
The plants are described as having the characteristics of marijuana; no laboratory confirmation was reported.
No arrests, detentions or suspects were reported, and no one is identified as responsible for the plantation.
The secretariat attributed the plantation to organized crime but named no group.
No value estimate for the crop and no federal case file number were published.
Jalisco state police found a marijuana plot near the El Salvador delegation in Tequila and destroyed about 83,200 cannabis plants by uprooting and burning them. The FGR opened a health-crimes investigation and kept the case open, reporting no detentions.
On 25 October 2026 Jalisco state police, with Defence and National Guard support, found two marijuana plots and a drying shed at San Martín de las Cañas in Tequila, destroyed about 98,000 plants on 22,880 square metres, and valued the crop at 102.9 million pesos.
Mexican navy personnel found and destroyed about 56,000 suspected marijuana plants on five plots covering more than 6,000 square metres in La Yesca, Nayarit, during patrols on 23 and 24 October. The navy did not report any arrests.
On 20, 21 and 22 October 2026 the Mexican navy and the army destroyed about 122,400 marijuana plants on eight plots covering about 14,880 square metres near La Yesca, Nayarit. The statements report no arrests. A separate five-plot destruction in the same municipality on 23 and 24 October is a different event.
