One held as FELCN seizes 174 g of marijuana in Tupiza
FELCN officers seized 174 grams of marijuana and apprehended one person in Tupiza, Potosí. The marijuana seizure was the second of two reported Potosí operations, the other a 40.6 kg cocaine seizure in Huancarani.
Officers of the Fuerza Especial de Lucha Contra el Narcotráfico (FELCN) carried
out two anti-drug operations in the department of Potosí.[1]In the second
intervention, in the municipality of Tupiza, officers seized174 grams of
marijuana.[1]Officers apprehended one person in that Tupiza intervention.[1]
FELCN departmental director Lieutenant Colonel Martín Stolzel reported the
operations.[1]He said the first operation took place in the Huancarani
sector, Antonio Quijarro province, where 40 kilos and 600 grams of cocaine were
seized.[1]That cocaine was seized after a police pursuit that ended when
traffickers dropped jute sacks and fled.[1]The account put the loss to drug
trafficking from that cocaine seizure at 73,100 dollars.[1]
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eju.tv's page image shows a large display of green-wrapped bricks consistent with the separate Huancarani cocaine seizure in the same article, not the 174 g Tupiza marijuana find, so no photo of this Tupiza seizure is listed.
The article gives no separate date for the Tupiza intervention; 13 November 2026 is its publication date and is used as the incident date.
No identity, age, charge or court outcome was reported for the apprehended person.
The 73,100-dollar loss and the 40 kilos and 600 grams figures concern cocaine in Huancarani, not cannabis, and are excluded from the cannabis figures.
No laboratory confirmation for the 174 grams of marijuana was reported.
The account rests on a single accessible report of the FELCN departmental director's statement, and an attempted second-source check of the original El Potosí page could not be opened.
eju.tv led with a display of many green-wrapped bricks from the larger Potosí operations, not a photo of the 174 g Tupiza marijuana seizure.
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