884 kg of marijuana seized at Yahuma on Colombia-Peru border
On 13 March 2026 Colombian and Peruvian forces intercepted a boat at Brazo Yahuma on the Amazon border and seized 884 kg of marijuana, which authorities linked to the GAO E-48 Comandos de Frontera. The crew fled into the jungle with no arrests reported, and officials framed the seizure as part of Plan Ayacucho Plus against Amazon drug logistics.
🇵🇪 Brazo Yahuma, Río Callarú, Mariscal Ramón Castilla, Loreto · Peru
Colombian and Peruvian authorities seized884 kilograms of marijuana from a boat
intercepted at Brazo Yahuma on the Amazon border.[1][2]The crew abandoned the
boat and fled into the jungle when security forces closed in, and no arrests
were reported.[3]
Peru’s joint command said the seized craft was a deslizador with a Brazilian 150
HP motor used to move drugs on Amazon rivers.[3]Colombia’s Aerospace Force
described the same interception as a boat with a Yamaha 200 motor carrying 884
kilograms for movement through strategic Amazon river corridors.[4]Authorities preliminarily linked the load to the GAO E-48 Comandos de Frontera.[4][2]
The Colombian account says intelligence came from its Grupo Aéreo del Amazonas
and joined the Navy, naval intelligence, Army Jungle Brigade 26, anti-narcotics
police and Peruvian Army units.[4][2]The Peruvian operation was carried out by
the 35th Jungle Brigade and DIRANDRO with prosecutors and Iquitos customs
officers to preserve custody of the drugs.[3]An anti-drugs prosecutor was
flown by Peruvian Army helicopter from Iquitos to DIRANDRO facilities in
Caballococha for the official weighing and verification.[3]Authorities
presented the seizure as part of Plan Ayacucho Plus to weaken the logistics and
finances of transnational drug trafficking in the Amazon.[4][2]
The Army also linked the Comandos de Frontera to the control of drug-trafficking routes in the border region with Ecuador.[5]
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No arrests, named suspects, charges or court outcome were reported; the crew fled into the jungle.
Colombia's account describes a Yamaha 200 motor while Peru's joint-command account describes a 150 HP Brazilian motor on the seized craft.
The reports name the site as Brazo Yahuma, the Yahuma tributary and the Callarú River near the Yahuma community, so a shared riverine-border description is used.
No drug valuation, package count or crew size was published.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Comando Conjunto de las Fuerzas Armadas: The interception happened around 01:45 on 13 March as the boat tried to cross the Callarú River near the Yahuma native community in Loreto.
Infobae names no arrests, crew size, package count or drug valuation for the Brazo Yahuma interception.
Later passages about 1.6 tonnes on the Garzón-Neiva road, 240 kilos between Pereira and Manizales and 720 kilos in Villavicencio describe different operations left out here.
Police in the Peruvian border town of Desaguadero intercepted a freight parcel containing over 64 kilograms of marijuana concealed inside a stamping machine at a transport company. A 29-year-old Bolivian woman was detained when she arrived to collect the shipment intended for Bolivia.
Police searching pavilions C and D of Socabaya prison in Arequipa seized seven wraps of marijuana alongside coca paste, cocaine, weapons and phones. The drugs went to the anti-drug unit while extortion investigators kept the phones, with no arrests reported.
Cusco anti-drug police detained a woman and a 17-year-old girl on a Cusco–Juliaca bus at Muñapata, Urcos, seizing 35.190 kg of marijuana. The pair, described as alleged members of 'Las Silenciosas del Sur', were placed with the Public Ministry while police hunt the suppliers and recipients.
Ayacucho criminal investigators found 408 kg of cannabis in a minibus abandoned at dawn in Pajonal, Ocros, after the occupants fled. Police put a possible onward route at Tacna and Chile and gave two market estimates. No one was arrested.
