Man held with 21 cocaine packets and cannabis in Lafaiete
Military Police arrested a 27-year-old man in Conselheiro Lafaiete's JK neighbourhood after a monitored house search found drugs. Officers seized 21 cocaine packets and one lump of cannabis, plus a scale, cash and ten phones.
🇧🇷 Bairro JK, Conselheiro Lafaiete, Minas Gerais · Brazil
Military Police officers arrested a 27-year-old man in flagrante for suspected
drug trafficking on the afternoon of Friday 30 October 2026 in the JK
neighbourhood of Conselheiro Lafaiete in central Minas Gerais.[1]The
operation was carried out by the 31st Military Police Battalion after repeated
reports that drugs were being sold from a home in the area.[1]The battalion’s
intelligence unit then monitored the house and gathered material that supported
a search-and-seizure warrant.[1]On Friday officers saw movements consistent
with trafficking and entered the address under investigation.[1]
During the house search officers found 21 packets of a substance resembling
cocaine, 20 of them already prepared for sale.[1]They also seized one lump of
a substance resembling maconha, the Brazilian Portuguese word for marijuana,
plus a precision scale, R$384 in cash and ten mobile phones.[1]
The man was taken in flagrante on suspicion of drug trafficking to the Civil
Police together with all the seized material.[2]Military Police said the
operation combined intelligence, planning and street action to stop the sales
and take drugs out of circulation.[1]
Photos and video
Police photo of the drugs and materials seized in the JK house search. Photo: Divulgação/PMPhoto details
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