Military Police officers arrested a couple in flagrante in Criciuma on Saturday 17 July 2021.[1] Officers first stopped the pair in a Chevrolet Celta.[2] The couple were taken to answer for drug trafficking.[2] The house they had left stands on Rua Clementina Ronchi in the Vila Cechinel subdivision, bairro Sao Defende.[1]
Officers found more than six kilos of marijuana, R$682 and three mobile phones inside the car.[2] Sniffer dog Flecha found four marijuana bricks hidden among bricks outside the house.[1] Officers saw another marijuana brick on a kitchen counter through the window.[1] Inside the house, officers found another 33.7 kilos of marijuana with the help of sniffer dog Flecha.[2] During a personal search at the police station, another 8.5 grams of marijuana was found on the woman.[2] The same house search also yielded 5.3 kilos of cocaine, 806 grams of crack, 978 grams of caffeine for mixing with cocaine, two scales and a pressure gun, which are not counted as cannabis.[2]
The man told officers he had collected the marijuana from someone and was to be paid 1,000 reais to deliver it.[2] Police went to the house partly because the pair had been seen leaving it and a fugitive might have been there.[2] At the station, a female officer found the additional marijuana hidden in the woman’s bra during the personal search.[1]
