Costa Rican authorities found 400 kilos of cocaine inside a truck that was abandoned on the side of a road in the province of Guanacaste, without any suspects being arrested so far.

The Judicial Investigation Organization (OIJ) explained that the discovery occurred thanks to an alert provided by the DEA, within the framework of joint work and bilateral information exchanges.

The deputy director of the OIJ, Vladimir Muñoz, explained that the operation was carried out in the town of Limonal, about 200 kilometers northwest of the capital San José, after the DEA received confidential information about a drug shipment that was going to be transported through the area.

The Costa Rican anti-drug agents found the medium-tonnage truck parked on the side of the road, with no occupants or people nearby, and decided to take it to an OIJ headquarters where it was subjected to an inspection.

During the inspection, the agents found a double floor in which 400 packages of cocaine weighing one kilo each were hidden.

According to data from the Costa Rican Institute on Drugs (ICD), in 2025 the authorities seized a total of 46.5 tons of cocaine, the second highest figure in the country's history, only surpassed by the 47.1 tons in 2020.

ICD data indicate that as of March 2026, cocaine seizures in Costa Rica reach 13.8 tons.

Drug trafficking and the violence associated with this phenomenon has become the main security problem in Costa Rica, a country that in recent years has recorded historic numbers of homicides linked, for the most part, to the fight by drug trafficking gangs.

Costa Rica has intensified its cooperation ties with the United States in terms of security and the fight against drug trafficking and last March it joined the regional initiative of US President Donald Trump, called “Shield of the Americas”, which aims to defeat drug cartels.

With information from EFE.