Faction member arrested with 25 cannabis portions in Cuiabá
Military police from Rotam arrested a suspected faction member in Cuiabá's Dom Aquino neighbourhood on 11 November 2026 after a resident's tip. Officers seized 25 portions of maconha, R$192.50 in cash and drug-preparation materials from two adjoining houses.
🇧🇷 Travessa Armando Cândia, bairro Dom Aquino, Cuiabá · Brazil
Military police officers from Rotam, the tactical patrol battalion, arrested a
suspected member of a criminal faction on Wednesday 11 November 2026 in the Dom
Aquino neighbourhood of Cuiabá.[1]Officers had gone to a house on Travessa
Armando Cândia after a resident reported suspicious movement there.[1]The
suspect tried to flee on foot by jumping the walls at the back, but officers
caught and detained him.[1]He was taken to the police station for the case to
be registered.[1]
Police reported 25 portions of drugs, identified as maconha.[1]In the
apparently abandoned residence, officers seized a pouch with R$192.50 in cash
and several portions of maconha, as well as a cell phone.[1]They also found a
PlayStation videogame with two controllers, a watch, knives and scissors of
alleged illicit origin and other materials for preparing and selling drugs.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
No weight was published for the 25 portions, so no cannabis kilograms are recorded.
The suspect was described only as a faction member, with no name or age published.
No charge, custody decision or court outcome beyond transfer to the police station for registration was reported.
The whole account rests on a single outlet report; no second independent account was found.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Midia Jur Notícias de Cuiabá e Mato Grosso: The suspect said more drugs were kept at his mother's house next door, and with her permission officers searched it and found further portions of the same drug in a backpack stored inside a washing machine.
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