Federal highway police stopped a car near the Cristinápolis operational unit on the BR-101 in Sergipe, and the driver fled at high speed instead of stopping.[1] Police pursued the car for about 20 minutes and 38 kilometres along the highway, with the driver reaching 180 km/h and performing dangerous manoeuvres.[2] The chase ended in the urban area of Cristinápolis when the driver lost control after a speed bump, and the car hit a kerb and a street light pole.[1] The two occupants left the car and ran into vegetation, pointing objects resembling firearms at the officers, and were not found that night.[2]
Inside the vehicle, officers found boxes holding 59 bags of a substance resembling marijuana weighing 31.5 kg, two tablets of a cannabis derivative weighing 2.09 kg, and 1,015 pills resembling ecstasy.[1] The Federal Highway Police put the total cannabis seizure at about 33.6 kg, the 31.5 kg of marijuana plus the 2.09 kg of derivative.[2] Television news in Sergipe reported the seizure as more than 30 kg of marijuana and 1,000 ecstasy pills on the BR-101 in Cristinápolis.[3] The car and the material were taken to the state civil police station, and the incident was recorded as suspected drug trafficking.[1]
One of the two occupants was arrested by the Federal Highway Police the next day, 6 November, in Estância, together with another man involved in drug trafficking.[1] The Federal Highway Police recorded the case, in principle, as drug trafficking.[2]
