Man placed under house detention after 50 marijuana blocks seized in Tunja
Tunja police arrested a 32-year-old man after finding 50 pressed marijuana blocks in his vehicle. The Fiscalía presented him to a judge, who reportedly ordered house detention as proceedings continued, though the police account attributed the order to the Fiscalía.
🇨🇴 San Francisco neighborhood, Tunja, Boyacá · Colombia
Tunja police, through the National Police’s Criminal Investigation Section
(SIJIN), arrested a 32-year-old man.[1]Boyacá 7 Días identified the man as
Luis Carlos Sánchez.[2]The newspaper said Sijín officers stopped and
inspected his pickup on the afternoon of 5 March while he travelled through
Tunja.[2]The police account placed the operation in the San Francisco
neighborhood and said officers apprehended him while he was driving.[1]Police
said officers found 50 pressed blocks of marijuana in the vehicle.[1]Boyacá 7
Días described three rectangular packages containing close to 25 kilograms of
marijuana and said this led to his arrest in the act.[2]
The police account described the seized amount as 26,000 grams of narcotics.[1]Authorities estimated the narcotics’ criminal-market value at more than 130
million pesos.[1]
The police account said he and the seized items were given to Colombia’s
Attorney General’s Office, which it identified as the authority imposing house
arrest.[1]Boyacá 7 Días reported that prosecutors presented him to a judge as
a suspect in drug trafficking, manufacture or possession.[2]The newspaper
reported that a judge ordered house detention after preliminary hearings while
the case continued.[2]It said he did not accept the charges.[2]
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The police account gives 26,000 grams of narcotics, while Boyacá 7 Días reports close to 25 kg of marijuana. The cannabis weight is recorded as the outlet's approximate figure because the police article's body does not explicitly identify its stated weight as cannabis.
The police account attributes the house-arrest measure to the Fiscalía, while Boyacá 7 Días says a judge ordered it after preliminary hearings.
The date of the preliminary hearings and detention order is not stated separately; 11 March 2026, the date Boyacá 7 Días published its account, is used for the latest procedural step.
The police account gives a market value of more than 130 million pesos for the narcotics but does not specify a marijuana-only valuation.
No later court outcome is reported in these sources.
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