53-year-old arrested as 14 cannabis bars found in rural Caratinga home
Military Police found 14 bars of cannabis hidden in a hard-to-reach compartment of a house in Córrego dos Macacos, in rural Caratinga, Minas Gerais, on the morning of 4 November 2026. The 53-year-old resident was arrested and taken to the Civil Police with the drugs and preparation materials; police said the material belonged to another man, whom officers did not find.
🇧🇷 Córrego dos Macacos, rural zone of Caratinga, Minas Gerais · Brazil
Military Police officers arrested a 53-year-old man at a house in Córrego dos
Macacos, in the rural zone of Caratinga in eastern Minas Gerais, on the morning
of Wednesday 4 November 2026.[1][2][3][4][5]The officers went to the property after
receiving information that it was being used by other people to store and
prepare drugs.[1][3][4][6]The resident told the officers that one of the people who
frequented the house had asked his permission to keep cannabis there, and then
let them in to search.[1][2][3][4][5][6]The Military Police said only that its officers
seized drugs at the Córrego dos Macacos property; the Diário de Caratinga
article on the case carries no count of the material.[7]
In an elevated compartment that was hard to reach, the officers found a sack
holding 14 bars of cannabis, a precision scale, a roll of plastic film and a
knife.[1][2][3][4][5]According to the police, the resident said the drug belonged to
another man.[1][3][4][5]Officers searched for the suspected owner during the operation
but did not find him.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
The resident was arrested and taken to the Civil Police station with the seized
material.[1][3][4][5][6]The Military Police did not say whether the resident was involved
in storing or preparing the drug.[1]
The Military Police of Minas Gerais, 62nd Battalion, carried out the action in Caratinga’s Vale do Rio Doce region.[5]
The Civil Police was to handle the follow-up to the occurrence.[6]
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The material seized at the house in Córrego dos Macacos, on the g1 photo captioned "Homem é preso após PM encontrar 14 barras de maconha em casa na zona rural de Caratinga". Photo: Polícia MilitarPhoto details
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Source: Rádio ItatiaiaSecond picture published beside the description of the scale, plastic film and knife seized at the house; the page gives it no caption or credit, and the material photographed may repeat the Military Police handout already filed.Photo details
No weight was published for the 14 bars of cannabis, so no kilograms can be recorded.
The suspected owner of the material was not found, and no name or age was published for him.
No charge, custody decision or court outcome is reported for the 53-year-old man.
The Military Police said it had not established whether the resident was involved in storing or preparing the drug.
The Diário de Caratinga account confirms only a Military Police drug seizure at the same locality, giving no count or further details.
The precise coordinates of the Córrego dos Macacos settlement were not published; the point used is the centre of Caratinga municipality.
The reprint is the same text as the g1 article and adds no independent confirmation beyond that outlet.
Itatiaia places Caratinga in the Vale do Rio Doce, while O Tempo, cited in this report, places it in the Zona da Mata; the location match rests on the identical Córrego dos Macacos rural-zone address.
The 62nd Battalion is named as the unit that acted, but no weight for the 14 bars, charge or court step is added by this account.
The lead picture is credited to PMMG and captioned with this seizure, but its address is the outlet's generic article-image file name, so it may duplicate the Military Police handout already filed for this report.
The As Notícias Online page gives no weight for the 14 bars and no charge or custody decision for the resident.
The two pictures on the page carry no caption, credit or alt text, so it is not established that they show this seizure or the seized materials; they may duplicate the Military Police handout already filed from g1 and Itatiaia.
The As Notícias Online text is closest to the Itatiaia account, so it may be a reprint of the same police-derived material rather than independent reporting.
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