Two arrested with hashish and marijuana after chase in Barbacena
Military Police in Barbacena arrested a 24-year-old man and a 26-year-old woman on 10 November 2026 after he fled on a motorcycle and threw away a bag in the Caiçaras neighbourhood. The bag held hashish and marijuana flowers as well as crack and cocaine base paste, and a sniffer dog found more marijuana in her garage.
🇧🇷 Bairro Caiçaras, Barbacena, Minas Gerais · Brazil
On the night of Tuesday 10 November 2026, Military Police in Barbacena, Minas
Gerais, received an anonymous tip that a 24-year-old man would go to an address
in the Caiçaras neighbourhood on a Honda XRE 300 motorcycle to collect drugs.[1]Officers monitoring the address saw the man receive a bag from a
26-year-old woman.[1]Ordered to stop, he fled at high speed, performed
dangerous manoeuvres, crashed the motorcycle and continued the escape on foot
after throwing the bag into the street.[1]He resisted the stop and was
restrained and handcuffed by the soldiers.[1]
In the bag he discarded, police seized two raw crack rocks, a portion of cocaine
base paste, a portion of hashish, marijuana flowers, a precision scale,
packaging supplies and a knife.[1]
The woman told officers she had handed the bag to the man at the request of her
former boyfriend.[1]At her home, a sniffer dog named Kovid found another
portion of marijuana in the garage.[1]Both were arrested in the act for drug
trafficking, association for trafficking and dangerous driving, and were taken
with the removed motorcycle and the seized material to the Civil Police station.[2]
Photos and video
Police handout photo published with the Caiçaras arrest in Barbacena. Photo: Divulgação/PMPhoto details
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