The 3rd Criminal Chamber of the Court of Justice of Mato Grosso do Sul unanimously granted an appeal by prosecutors to revoke the provisional release of Raphael Enrike Costa Ferreira and Renato Alves Pereira and order their preventive detention.[1] The court decreed preventive detention under articles 312 and 313 of the Code of Criminal Procedure on suspicion of drug trafficking.[1] A first-instance judge had previously granted the pair provisional release with alternative precautionary measures during a custody hearing following their flagrant arrest.[2]

The two men were caught transporting 200.4 kilograms of cannabis divided into 128 bricks and packed in 10 cardboard boxes.[2] According to case records, the suspects traveled from São Paulo to Campo Grande, where a third person loaded the vehicle for the return trip to São Paulo state.[2] Investigations showed the pair were to receive 15,000 reais for the transport and had previously made an identical trip, indicating an organised operation with division of tasks.[2]

Public prosecutors Talita Zoccolaro Papa and Radames de Almeida Domingos appealed the lower court release order to safeguard public order.[2] The prosecution argued that preventive detention was justified by the plural conduct of multiple agents, the volume of seized narcotics, and procedural risks.[1] Reporting judge Zaloar Murat Martins de Souza affirmed that the large haul and evidence of organized interstate trafficking demonstrated that non-custodial measures were insufficient.[2]