A Chuy court sentenced a 19-year-old Brazilian man to two years in prison for supplying drugs, and ordered that he be expelled from Uruguay once the sentence is served.[1] The Interior Ministry published the outcome on 25 June 2026.[1] Telenoche reported it the next day and said the term is to be served.[2]

The stop was at dawn on a Wednesday at the bus terminal in Chuy, on the Brazilian border.[1] Officers of the tactical reserve and PADO, the high-intensity patrol programme, were on preventive duty.[1] They identified a man who had got off an intercity bus, on which another officer was travelling, and who was walking through the terminal in what they called a suspicious manner.[1] Telenoche says he had come from Montevideo.[2]

A search found a backpack with nine large nylon packages of plant material that looked like cannabis.[1] They also took a phone and charger, a Brazilian identity card, 385 pesos and 54.60 reais.[1] Forensic police weighed the plant material at 2.966 kg.[1]

The second-turn court in Chuy convicted him in a shortened proceeding.[1] The ministry says the sentence is two years of penitentiary imprisonment, followed by expulsion because he is a foreigner.[1]