Federal Highway Police (Polícia Rodoviária Federal, PRF) officers stopped an Audi with Paraguayan plates on the BR-480 in Chapecó, western Santa Catarina, on the afternoon of Friday 6 November 2026.[1][2][3][4] Two Paraguayan men were travelling in the car.[5] Officers said the occupants showed extreme nervousness, which led them to search the car in detail.[1][6][3]

In the boot and other compartments they found several tablets of marijuana weighing 110.6 kilograms, the figure the PRF reported.[5][2][3][4] The two men were arrested in the act (em flagrante, caught at the scene).[1][2]

Officers took them to the Federal Police station in Chapecó together with the car and the seized drug.[5][6][2][3][4] They are to answer for the crime of international drug trafficking.[1][2][3] The accounts came from the PRF and were carried by local outlets in western Santa Catarina.[5]

ClicRDC publishes a PRF-credited photograph of the seized marijuana tablets found in the Audi.[4]