A total of 3,505 kilos of marijuana they were seized in an operation carried out between the National Customs Service, the Investigative Police, the Navy and the Public Ministry, in the Port of San Antonio and that they came from Mexico in three different ships.

It was in 2019 when the Specialized Prosecutor for Anti-narcotics and Organized Crime of the South Metropolitan Regional Prosecutor’s Office, requested the San Antonio Customs, PDI and Maritime Government, to begin review the hospitalizations made by a Mexican company.

In this way, a complete inspection of movements and loads that the company carried out in our country began to be carried out. It is in the middle of these reviews that it was possible to detect the ships, whose containers were expertized by the canine specimens of the PDI and Customs.

In the first instance, four containers were detected where the documentation indicated a total of 1328 ceramic boxes, which actually contained more than 1700 kilos of marijuana. Later, in the first days of December, more than 1,800 kilos of pressed cannabis were seized.

In this regard, the National Director of Customs added that they carried out an information crossing to find the containers.


After carrying out the total weighing of the drug, it dropped a weight of 3,505 kilos, valued at more than 17 billion pesos.