Man held near Corumbá bus station with 3.98 kg of cannabis
Military police stopped a man near Corumbá's bus station on the night of 30 October 2026 and found 3.98 kg of cannabis in his backpack, during the 32nd Operação Força Total. He told officers a Colombian had handed him the drug at a local guesthouse the day before, and police said he already wore an ankle monitor over a trafficking case in Mato Grosso.
🇧🇷 Terminal Rodoviário, Corumbá, Mato Grosso do Sul · Brazil
Military police arrested a man for drug trafficking near the bus station in
Corumbá on the night of Friday 30 October 2026, during the 32nd edition of
Operação Força Total (Operation Total Force).[1]The man was carrying 3.98 kg
of cannabis in a backpack.[2]He was from Tangará da Serra, in Mato Grosso.[3]The 6th Military Police Battalion said officers stopped him after he
changed direction and quickened his pace when the patrol car came near.[2]
He told police that a Colombian man had handed him the drug at a guesthouse in
Corumbá on the morning of 29 October, the day before his arrest.[3]He said he
had come to the city to transport the cannabis.[2]He also said members of a
criminal organisation had threatened to kill him.[2]
Police found he was wearing an electronic ankle monitor because of a
drug-trafficking case in Mato Grosso.[2]He was taken with the drug to the
Civil Police station, and the case was to go to the Federal Police.[2]
Photos and video
Police handout photo of the cannabis seized from the man in Corumbá, captioned by the newspaper as 'the drug weighed almost four kilos'. Photo: Divulgação/Polícia Militar (Military Police handout)Photo details
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Open questions the AI reported
The Diário Corumbaense gives the weight as 3.9 kg in its opening line and 3.980 kg later in the same report; this report uses 3.98 kg.
No charge, court date or court outcome has been reported; the sources say only that the case was to go to the Federal Police.
None of the reports names the man arrested.
Corumbá On Line and Folha MS ran uncaptioned lead pictures that could not be confirmed as photographs of this seizure, so only the Diário Corumbaense police handout is listed.
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