Monday, June 1st 2026 - 03:03 UTC
Paraguayan authorities have detained four US citizens following the seizure on Saturday of a private aircraft arriving from Miami that was carrying 261.6 kilograms of marijuana with high tetrahydrocannabinol content, the National Anti-Drug Secretariat (Senad) reported on Sunday. Among those arrested is Jabari Stephen Brown, known for having won an executive aircraft valued at several million dollars in a competition organized by US YouTuber MrBeast, considered the content creator with the most followers in the world. Brown was captured on Saturday night at a hotel in Asunción, becoming the fourth member of the aircraft's crew in Paraguayan custody.
The operation took place at the Silvio Pettirossi International Airport, Paraguay's main air terminal, located in the city of Luque, near Asunción. According to Senad, agents intervened at the moment when several suitcases were being unloaded from the aircraft to be transferred to a vehicle bound for Asunción. The other detainees from Saturday are Marisol Rivas, Anthony Vásquez, and David Thomas Wise, also US citizens and crew members of the aircraft, according to the Paraguayan newspaper ABC Color. All four were transferred from the Senad operations base to the Public Prosecutor's Office, where prosecutors charged them with international drug trafficking.
