Jalisco police burn about 98,000 marijuana plants near Tequila
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.
🇲🇽 San Martín de las Cañas, Tequila, Jalisco · Mexico
- Plants destroyed
- 98,000
- Hectares
- 2.3
- Value (official estimate)
- MXN 102,900,000
On 25 October 2026 officers of Jalisco’s regional police commissariat, on preventive patrols in
tracks and highland areas of San Martín de las Cañas, in the municipality of Tequila, found two plots
used for suspected marijuana and a drying centre.[1][2] The two fields covered a combined 22,880
square metres (about 2.29 hectares).[1][2]
Police counted about 95,000 standing plants and about 3,000 plants about a metre tall in the dryer,
for a total of about 98,000.[1][2] They notified a federal public prosecutor, took samples and
photographs, then burned the plants on site.[1][2] Defence and National Guard units in the Valles
region supported the work.[1][2]
Intelligence estimates put the black-market value of the material at 102.9 million pesos.[1][2] No
arrests are named in the reports opened.[1][2]
Sources
- Encuentran y destruyen casi 100 mil plantas de mariguana en Tequila, Jalisco. Infobae, 25 October 2026. In Spanish.
- Destruyen casi 100 mil plantas de aparente marihuana en Tequila. Quadratín Jalisco, 25 October 2026. In Spanish.
Open questions the AI reported
- No arrests are reported; the accounts name no cultivators.
- Plant counts are approximate (about 95,000 standing plus about 3,000 in the dryer).
- The exact calendar day of the patrol is not separated from the 25 October publication date.
