The seccional court of Trujillo, Colón, coordinated on 11 November 2026 the official incineration of a load of marijuana held in 16 sacks, seized earlier in anti-drug-trafficking operations on Honduras’s Atlantic coast.[1] The whole load was destroyed in the judicial act, carried out under strict security and transparency measures.[1] Prosecutors of the Trujillo local prosecutor’s office and specialists of the Forensic Medicine Directorate took part, after field tests and toxicological analysis to certify the purity and exact weight of the drug.[1] Firefighters controlled the fire and the environmental and safety conditions of the combustion, while personnel of the Puerto Castilla naval base kept the perimeter guard during the transfer and the execution of the court order.[1] The act complied with Honduras’s Code of Criminal Procedure and its law on the misuse of and illicit traffic in drugs and psychotropic substances.[1]

The Judiciary reported that in the Trujillo, Colón, court of first instance the incineration of a considerable quantity of marijuana in 16 sacks was coordinated, with the local prosecutor’s office, Forensic Medicine, the fire service and the Puerto Castilla naval base taking part.[2] The Public Prosecutor’s Office said the drug had been seized by the anti-drug-trafficking directorate’s Atlantic Littoral regional office together with the Xatruch joint task force in a mountainous area of Trujillo, Colón.[3]