Three sentenced over a cannabis-bud production circuit in Canelones and Montevideo
A court in Minas sentenced two men and a woman for producing and supplying cannabis buds from sites in Parque del Plata, Canelones, and La Unión, Montevideo. One man received three years in a rehabilitation centre; the other two received two years in prison.
🇺🇾 Parque del Plata, Canelones, and La Unión, Montevideo, Uruguay
A court in Minas sentenced two men and a woman for producing and supplying cannabis buds to unregistered consumers from sites in Parque del Plata, Canelones, and La Unión, Montevideo, the Interior Ministry said.[1]
The man identified as M.J.A.O., 43, who has previous convictions, was sentenced to three years in a rehabilitation centre for supplying prohibited drugs and for internal trafficking in arms and ammunition.[1][2]M.L.A.C., 43, and A.F.M., 44, who have no previous convictions, were sentenced to two years of effective imprisonment for supplying prohibited drugs.[1][2]
The three were detained in Minas and appeared before the first-turn court of Dr Beatriz Protesoni.[1][2]The raids dismantled the production and supply circuit, with support from the General Directorate for the Repression of Illicit Drug Trafficking, the rural security brigade and forensic police from Montevideo and Lavalleja.[1][2]
The case began when officers of the 8th police station in Mariscala stopped a man on 29 December 2025 and seized a parcel containing cannabis buds and a phone.[1][2]The Lavalleja anti-drug brigade handled the investigation.[1][2]
Neither source gives the amount of cannabis seized in the raids or the date they took place.[1][2]
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On 17 August 2026 prosecutors said three Uruguayan men had been sentenced, the longest term four years and four months, for exporting marijuana to Brazil with the Primeiro Comando da Capital. The cases followed five raids on 14 August. A fourth man was held until February 2027.
PADO officers stopped a 19-year-old Brazilian man at the Chuy bus terminal with 2.966 kg of cannabis in a backpack. A Chuy court, in a shortened hearing, sentenced him to two years in prison and ordered his expulsion after the term.
Arrested 1Charged 1Cannabis 2.966 kgPrison 2 years
Police searched three homes at once in Rivera's barrio Lavalleja, seized 237 packets of a yellowish substance shown alongside marijuana in the police photos, 120 packets of pasta base, cash and phones, and detained six people including two teenagers. A court then convicted three adults on drug-supply charges and imposed 16 months of closed detention on the two adolescents.
Uruguayan police raided a hashish laboratory in Juan Soler and three Canelones sites on 7 December 2025, seizing 4,433.65 kg of cannabis and 46.52 kg of hashish; four detainees received abbreviated sentences up to three years in prison on 9 December.
