Military police in Corumbá seized 98 kg of marijuana on the night of Friday 6 November, in the Alameda Piratininga area of the city, in Mato Grosso do Sul.[1][2][3][4] Officers of the Rádio Patrulha, a round-the-clock patrol unit, were looking for one of the people involved in a brawl in the neighbouring Cristo Redentor neighbourhood when they saw a man acting suspiciously.[1][3] The man ran off on foot, forced the door of a house open and escaped into a stretch of woods behind the property.[1][2][4]

Searching the route he took, police found two bags loaded with marijuana tablets in the back yard and more of the drug inside the house.[1][2][3][4] Officers also took a mobile phone and a credit card machine from the property.[1][2][3][4] The owner of the house told police she had rented it to a man known only by a nickname and said she did not know about any illegal activity there.[1][2][3] She was taken to the police station as a witness to give a statement, while the drug was sent to the Federal Police in Corumbá.[1][2][4]

The suspect remained at large and police said the investigation was continuing to identify him.[1][2] No one was arrested over the seizure.[1]