India, June 3 -- Jabari Brown, the young American pilot who went viral after winning a private jet worth $2.4 million in a MrBeast YouTube challenge, was detained in Paraguay after authorities seized over 261 kilos of marijuana from a private aircraft he was co-piloting.

He has since been released after prosecutors determined he had no involvement in the drug trafficking.

On Saturday, agents from Paraguay's National Anti-Drug Secretariat, known as SENAD, seized a Bombardier Challenger 604 private jet at Silvio Pettirossi International Airport outside Asuncion, according to Local outlet ABC Color.

The aircraft had flown in from Miami, with a stopover in Panama City before landing in Paraguay.

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