18-year-old arrested with 39 cannabis portions hidden in Cuiabá lot
Rotam military police arrested an 18-year-old man for drug trafficking in Cuiabá's Lixeira neighbourhood late on 4 November 2026, finding three cannabis portions on him and another 36 hidden in a nearby vacant lot. He was handed to the Civil Police at the city's Central de Flagrantes, and no weight, value or court outcome was published.
🇧🇷 Rua Linhares, bairro Lixeira, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso · Brazil
Officers of Rotam, the Military Police’s tactical patrol battalion, arrested an
18-year-old man for drug trafficking in the Lixeira neighbourhood of Cuiabá in
the late afternoon of Wednesday 4 November 2026.[1][2]The officers went to the
neighbourhood after the intelligence sector reported a drug sales point and the
suspect responsible for it.[1][3][4][5]The arrest arose from information passed on by
the state public security secretariat’s intelligence service about a drug sales
point in Lixeira, which also identified the man running it.[6]
They stopped him on Rua Linhares and found three portions of a cannabis-like
substance on him.[2][4]Police said the suspect admitted he was selling the drug
and told them where more was stored, in a vacant lot next to an alley.[1][2][3][5]
In the lot, officers found a bag with another 36 cannabis portions in plastic
packaging, ready for sale.[1][4]The seizure totalled 39 cannabis portions, with
no weight published in any account.[2][3][5]An iPhone was also collected during the
operation, which had the support of the ALI/Rotam intelligence unit and the
Rotam 90 team.[2][4]
Officers gave the man notice of arrest and took him to the Central de Flagrantes
in Cuiabá, where he was handed to the Civil Police to register the case.[1][3][4][5]The police record says the young man had previous records for drug trafficking
and for sexual assault of a vulnerable person.[2][4]The case was registered as
suspected drug trafficking, with any criminal liability still to be established.[6]The three news accounts were based on a police occurrence report and on
information released by the Mato Grosso public security secretariat, not on the
case file.[6]
Photos and video
Police photo of the 39 cannabis portions seized from the 18-year-old and the vacant lot in Cuiabá's Lixeira neighbourhood. Photo: PMMTPhoto details
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Open questions the AI reported
No weight, street value or number of plants was published for the 39 portions, so only the portion count is recorded.
The suspect's name was not published, only his age of 18 and his neighbourhood in Cuiabá.
No charge was formally reported and no court outcome is known; he was handed to the Civil Police for registration at the Central de Flagrantes.
It is unclear whether the telephone seized, the iPhone reported by Gazeta Digital, was counted in the published list of seized items of the submitted account.
The submitted account describes no street name; Rua Linhares comes from Gazeta Digital.
The pages do not say when the case file will be sent to a court, and no defence statement was published.
Gazeta Digital names the alley as the nearby location for the vacant lot, while the Military Police statement says the lot was near an alley; the reports agree on the store.
No weight, street value or number of plants was published for the 39 portions in this account.
Portal 93 credits Gazeta Digital and republishes its report, so it is not an independent account of the arrest.
No weight, street value or court outcome is given for the 39 portions in this account.
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Military police arrested seven suspected drug traffickers in the Água Branca neighbourhood of Contagem and seized 218 kg of cannabis. The suspects, all with prior criminal records, were taken to the Contagem Civil Police station for investigation.
Civil Police in Itapetininga arrested a man in flagrante on 10 November 2026 during Operação Black Hat, an investigation into drugs advertised on social networks and delivered by delivery. Officers serving a search warrant seized portions of dry and marijuana flower, 10 ecstasy tablets and R$7,600 in cash, with a scale, two phones and a motorcycle.
Civil Police arrested three men from Amazonas in a house in Cinturão Verde, Boa Vista, on 10 November 2026 with 201.5 kg of cannabis derivatives, including hashish and cannabis oil. Police valued the load at R$15 million and said it was meant for Rio de Janeiro; the men were booked for trafficking.
