Two cannabis plants seized from a public alley in Bela Vista de Minas
Military Police officers in Bela Vista de Minas, Minas Gerais, seized two cannabis plants growing in an alley on public ground in the Bandeirantes neighbourhood on the night of 8 November 2026. The 40-year-old man accused of cultivating them was not found, and the plants were sent to the Civil Police station.
🇧🇷 Avenida José Modesto de Ávila, Bairro Bandeirantes, Bela Vista de Minas, Minas Gerais · Brazil
Military Police officers seized two cannabis plants in Bela Vista de Minas, in
the Médio Piracicaba region of Minas Gerais, on the night of Sunday 8 November
2026.[1]The plants were growing in an alley on public ground near a house in
the Bandeirantes neighbourhood.[1]The incident was recorded at about 6.30pm
on Avenida José Modesto de Ávila, after officers received an anonymous tip that
cannabis was being grown near the address.[1]
Officers searched the area and found the two plants in the alley.[1]Police
said the man accused of growing the plants is 40 years old, and they did not
find him during the operation.[2]The two plants were taken to the Civil
Police station for the measures the case requires.[1]
The operation was carried out by the 17th Independent Military Police Company.[2]In a separate incident on the same avenue early the following morning,
police found cocaine with a 31-year-old man, who signed an undertaking to appear
and was released.[2]
Case data
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No weight, monetary value or number of arrestees was reported for the two plants.
Only two accounts of the event were opened and both appear to draw on the same Military Police information; the Military Police did not publish a separate statement that could be opened.
The plants are described only as cannabis (maconha) plants, with no laboratory confirmation reported.
No charges, arrest or court outcome are reported; the case is at the Civil Police station.
The Itabira Online article also reports a separate cocaine seizure at about 2am on 9 November on the same avenue; that is a different event, left out of this report.
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