Santa Catarina’s Military Police, through the 12th Military Police Battalion (12º BPM), carried out an anti-drug-trafficking operation in Camboriú on Tuesday afternoon into the evening of the 3rd, arresting three men.[1] ROCAM patrols ran the operation with support from the battalion’s Intelligence Agency, which had begun monitoring a 22-year-old man suspected of involvement in drug trafficking.[1] The three men were taken to the police station together with the seized materials for the applicable legal procedures.[1]
Officers stopped a man driving a Ford Fiesta after it left the suspected transaction site and found 89 grams of maconha and a mobile phone with the driver.[1] At a house on Rua Saul Dallago, officers caught the 22-year-old handling maconha on a table next to a precision scale.[1] Searches there seized 3,540 kg of maconha, 283 grams of haxixe, four precision scales, two knives, materials used to portion drugs, two mobile phones and R$680 in cash.[1] At another house on Rua José João Custódio, a 27-year-old man tried to run inside and discard drugs when police approached, but officers followed, caught and arrested him.[1] Searches there found 11,960 kg of maconha stored in suitcases, plus three precision scales, three knives, materials used to prepare and package drugs and a mobile phone.[1] In total, the operation seized 15,589 kg of maconha and 283 grams of haxixe, reported as 15,872 kg of drugs.[1] Officers also collected seven precision scales, five knives, four mobile phones and R$680 in cash, along with materials for portioning and packaging drugs.[1]
The case began after reports of drug sales and storage at properties on Rua José João Custódio and Rua Saul Dallago in Camboriú.[1] During surveillance, police identified a possible drug transaction between the monitored suspect and the man who arrived driving the Ford Fiesta.[1]
