Driver arrested with 2.973 kg of marijuana in Alfredo Wagner
Military Police stopped a Fiat Palio in Alfredo Wagner, Santa Catarina, in the early hours of 10 November 2026 and found 2.973 kg of a substance resembling marijuana hidden under a towel on the passenger seat; the driver was arrested on suspicion of drug trafficking. The man and the drug were taken to the Civil Police station in Lages, and the car was towed to an accredited impound lot.
Military Police arrested the driver of a Fiat Palio on suspicion of drug
trafficking in the early hours of Tuesday 10 November 2026 in Alfredo Wagner, in
Santa Catarina’s Serra Catarinense.[1]The operation began after the Agência
de Inteligência, the Military Police’s intelligence wing, reported that a Fiat
Palio was carrying drugs, and officers located and stopped the vehicle.[1]Rádio Sintonia FM, crediting the Military Police, gave the time of the approach
as about 3h28.[2]
During the search officers found 2.973 kg of a substance resembling marijuana
hidden under a towel on the passenger seat.[1]Rádio Sintonia FM described the
same find as about two kilograms and 970 grams under a towel on the passenger
seat.[2]Police said the driver showed altered behaviour during the approach
and had to be restrained so the safety procedures could be carried out.[1]
The driver received voz de prisão, an arrest in flagrante, on suspicion of drug
trafficking.[1]The car was removed to an accredited impound lot, and the
driver and the seized drug were taken to the Civil Police station in Lages for
the legal procedures.[1]
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Materials seized during the police approach in Alfredo Wagner. Photo: PMSCPhoto details
Notícia no Ato dates the approach to the early hours of Tuesday 10 November 2026 at about 3h20, while Rádio Sintonia FM puts it in the early hours of Wednesday 11 November at about 3h28; this report uses 10 November.
Notícia no Ato gives 2.973 kg and Rádio Sintonia FM about 2.970 kg for the same find; this report uses the more precise 2.973 kg figure.
The substance was described only as resembling marijuana, and no laboratory confirmation was reported.
The driver was not named, and no age or formal charge was reported.
No court outcome was reported for the arrested driver.
Both accounts credit the Military Police, so the description rests on the police account of the approach.
Brigada Militar officers arrested a man in flagrante for drug trafficking at Praça da República in the centre of Ijuí, Rio Grande do Sul, on 11 November 2026, after a tip-off that he would collect drugs there. A search of his backpack found two bricks of marijuana weighing 816 grams, four further portions weighing 420 grams and a precision scale.
Military highway police arrested the driver of a truck at Palmital, São Paulo, in the early hours of 11 November 2026 after finding 4,086.680 kg of marijuana hidden among a load of pumpkins on the Raposo Tavares highway. The 31-year-old man was held in flagrante for drug trafficking at the disposal of the courts, and police put the loss to trafficking at 8.17 million reais.
Military police arrested two women in Arapiraca on 11 November 2026 after a tip that a passenger on a bus from Bahia was carrying drugs to the city bus terminal. Officers seized 471 grams of pressed cannabis, along with cocaine, crack, cash and scales, and booked both women for drug trafficking and association for trafficking.
Military Police arrested a 27-year-old man on the MT-248 in Araputanga after finding four tablets of a substance analogous to marijuana in his backpack. He said he would be paid R$ 1,000 to carry the drug from Pontes e Lacerda to Araputanga.
