About 33,000 marijuana plants burned at three sites in Tequila, Jalisco
Jalisco state police found two marijuana plantations and a drying site in the municipality of Tequila and burned about 33,000 plants, police said. Quadratín Jalisco put the crop's black-market value at about 37.1 million pesos, and no arrests were reported.
🇲🇽 Los Alotes, near El Olvido, Tequila, Jalisco · Mexico
Plants destroyed
33,000
Area
0.8 ha
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Jalisco State Police, Secretaría de Seguridad Jalisco
Jalisco state police destroyed about 33,000 plants of apparent marijuana found
at two plantations and a drying site in the municipality of Tequila, in the
Valles region.[1]Officers of the regional police unit found the first plot
near the property known as Los Alotes, close to the village of El Olvido: about
3,000 plants up to 1.2 metres tall on roughly 1,500 square metres.[1]
At the Los Ocotes property they found a drying site, an open area where about
6,000 plants hung on galvanised wire.[1]A second plot in the same area, of
about 6,000 square metres, held around 24,000 plants up to 1.7 metres tall.[1]The state security ministry said officers asked the federal public prosecutor to
take charge, and the prosecutor ordered the sites photographed before, during
and after the destruction.[1]After the sites were documented, the plants were
destroyed and burned on the spot under the federal prosecutor’s instructions.[2]
Quadratín Jalisco put the black-market value of the 33,000 plants destroyed at
the three sites at about 37.1 million pesos.[3]The reports name no arrests
and no suspects.[3]
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First of the Jalisco security ministry handout photos published with the report, showing the destruction of the plants in Tequila. Photo: Secretaría de Seguridad JaliscoPhoto details
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Source: Reporte ÍndigoSecond handout photo in the same gallery, one of the images of the plants before, during and after their destruction. Photo: Secretaría de Seguridad JaliscoPhoto details
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Source: Reporte ÍndigoThird handout photo from the destruction of the Tequila plantations. Photo: Secretaría de Seguridad JaliscoPhoto details
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Source: Reporte ÍndigoFourth handout photo of the operation, whose destruction the federal prosecutor ordered documented. Photo: Secretaría de Seguridad JaliscoPhoto details
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Source: Reporte ÍndigoFifth handout photo in the gallery of the destroyed plantations and drying frame in Tequila. Photo: Secretaría de Seguridad JaliscoPhoto details
No arrests or suspects are named in any of the three accounts, so no person is identified as responsible for the plantations.
The plant total (about 33,000) is an approximation summing three sites; the source gives about 3,000, about 6,000 and about 24,000 plants respectively.
The reports describe the material as aparente marihuana (apparent marijuana); no laboratory confirmation was reported.
The accounts give no separate date for the patrols; 16 August 2026 is the date of the state security ministry's statement and of publication, and stands in for the incident date.
The 37.1 million peso figure is the authorities' black-market estimate as published by Quadratín Jalisco; Reporte Índigo and NTV+ give no value.
The two plots' areas are about 1,500 and 6,000 square metres, but it is not clear whether the drying site is included in the 6,000 square metres, so only the first plot's area is converted into hectares in the figures.
All three accounts are built on the Jalisco state security ministry's statement, and the published photographs are its handout images; the ministry's own page could not be opened.
The accounts name the municipality of Tequila rather than the exact spot; the coordinates are those of the municipal centre and the precision is recorded as district.
The event-identity check reported that its required comparison target was unavailable, although the Tequila San Martín de las Cañas report was read in full; the comparison is supplied with a verbatim passage from it.
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.
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