Army seizes 440 kg of marijuana at the old Tunía toll in Cauca
On 11 November 2026, units of the Colombian army's Brigade 29 seized 440 kilograms of marijuana at the old Tunía toll on the Panamericana road in Piendamó, Cauca, after the truck's driver tried to evade a checkpoint and abandoned the vehicle. The authorities attributed the load to the FARC dissidents' Dagoberto Ramos structure.
🇨🇴 Old Tunía toll, Panamericana road, Piendamó, Cauca · Colombia
On 11 November, Brigade 29 of the Colombian army seized440 kilograms of
marijuana at the old Tunía toll on the Panamericana road, in Piendamó, Cauca.[1]The seizure came during a military checkpoint check on a truck whose driver
had tried to evade the post and then abandoned the vehicle.[1]
The authorities attributed the load, presumably, to the Dagoberto Ramos
structure of the FARC dissidents.[1]
The regional report also records a separate late-October interception of a
tanker carrying 7,025 gallons of a substance identified as hexane.[1]
Case data
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No one was captured in the seizure, as the driver abandoned the truck and fled; no charge, custody decision or court outcome was reported.
The account rests on a single opened report (Diario del Cauca, drawing on a regional post by Ovidio Hoyos and the Fuerza Pública); no second, independent source could be opened.
No street value, package count or destination for the 440 kilograms was published.
The attribution of the load to the Dagoberto Ramos structure is the authorities' own; no court finding on it was reported.
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