Police seize 53 kg of marijuana in a Cachoeirinha drug depot
Civil Police officers from Denarc's 4th anti-narcotics precinct found 75 bricks of marijuana weighing 53 kg in a house in Vila Cachoeirinha, Cachoeirinha, which police said was a depot supplying the Porto Alegre metropolitan region. No arrest was reported in the case; investigators said they were working to identify the owner of the load, who faces a drug-trafficking charge.
🇧🇷 Vila Cachoeirinha, Cachoeirinha, Rio Grande do Sul · Brazil
Civil Police officers from the 4th anti-narcotics precinct of Denarc, Rio Grande
do Sul’s state anti-drug department, searched a house in Vila Cachoeirinha,
Cachoeirinha, on Wednesday 28 October 2026.[1]Police found 75 bricks of
marijuana weighing 53 kg.[2]They said the house was being used as a depot to
supply smaller sales points across the metropolitan region.[1]No arrest was
reported in the Cachoeirinha case, and investigators said the owner of the load
would answer for drug trafficking.[1]
The house also held two precision scales, one an industrial model able to weigh
up to 40 kg, material for dividing and packaging the drug, and stickers used in
the trade’s tele-entrega, or phone-order delivery.[1]The operation was
coordinated by delegate Ana Flávia de Melo Leite, head of the 4th anti-narcotics
precinct.[2]
The search followed intelligence work that mapped the movement of a criminal
faction in the region.[2]Denarc said the inquiry had entered a new phase
focused on identifying and holding criminally responsible the people behind the
material, and that officers would keep working to dismantle the criminal network
connected to the depot.[2]
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The 75 marijuana bricks seized in Vila Cachoeirinha, 53 kg in total. Photo: Polícia Civil / CP (Correio do Povo)Photo details
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The 28 October date rests on the Correio do Povo's reference to actions carried out on the Wednesday, in a report published the next day; the Terra account gives no date for the search.
Neither account says whether anyone was present at the house or detained there; the only arrest in the round-up belongs to a separate cocaine seizure.
No value was given for the 53 kg of marijuana, and no charge or court step has been reported.
The same round-up reports a separate cocaine seizure and a 10 kg marijuana seizure in Sapucaia do Sul, different events left out of this report.
The Terra article is a licensed copy of a Porto Alegre 24 Horas report, so the two accounts are not fully independent.
Santa Catarina's BOPE special operations battalion seized about 420 kg of a substance resembling marijuana from an uninhabited house used as a drug depot in Guarda do Cubatão, Palhoça, in the early hours of 11 November 2026 after a neighbours' tip. Officers saw the tablets through a window; the load went to the Civil Police station and no arrests were announced.
Federal Highway Police arrested a 44-year-old truck driver in the early hours of 11 November 2026 after finding more than half a tonne of skunk, about 591 packages, in a false bottom of his truck's cargo body at km 319 of the BR-070 in Jussara, Goiás. The load had left Cacoal, Rondônia, bound for Goiânia, and the driver was to be paid R$10,000.
Paraná's Border Police Battalion and federal agencies seized 7,781 kg of marijuana and skunk hidden in a maize load on a bitrem truck stopped on BR-163 near Marechal Cândido Rondon, and arrested a 30-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman. The operation, part of Operação Protetor, ran from 10 to 11 November 2026, and the battalion put the loss to organised crime at R$16,318,000.
Federal Highway Police officers seized 245.6 kilograms of marijuana from a white Chevrolet Onix that fled an inspection on the BR-163 in Lindoeste, western Paraná, on the night of 10 November 2026. The 25-year-old driver and a 16-year-old passenger were taken with the car and the drug to the Civil Police station in Cascavel.
