Military police of the DOF (Departamento de Operações de Fronteira), Mato Grosso do Sul’s border operations department, seized about 2,021 kg of marijuana on the BR-463 between Dourados and Ponta Porã on Tuesday 10 November 2026.[1] The driver, a 34-year-old man, was arrested after trying to flee the stop.[2] The drugs were carried in a Toyota Hilux pickup that police recovered as a vehicle stolen in the state of Mato Grosso.[1]
The team was patrolling the highway near the access to the Campo Limpo indigenous village when it saw the pickup enter the BR-463 at high speed, nearly hitting other vehicles.[1] The driver ignored the order to stop and fled against the flow of traffic, forcing other drivers to swerve to avoid collisions.[1] Near the junction with the MS-378, known as Estrada do Guaíba, he lost control of the Hilux, left the road and crashed into the fence of a rural property.[1] He tried to escape on foot but was caught and arrested by the officers.[1] During the inspection the team found 2,031 tablets of marijuana in the cab and the cargo bed of the pickup.[1]
The man said he had received the vehicle already loaded near the town of Antônio João and was to receive R$ 5,000 to drive it to Dourados.[1] Checks showed that the plate on the pickup belonged to another vehicle and that the Hilux had been stolen in Rondonópolis, Mato Grosso, in January 2025.[2] The man, the drugs and the pickup were taken to Defron (Delegacia Especializada de Repressão aos Crimes de Fronteira), the specialized border-crimes police station, in Dourados.[1] Police estimated the loss to the criminal organization at R$ 4.2 million.[1] The action was part of Operação Protetor das Fronteiras, a partnership between the Mato Grosso do Sul state Secretariat of Justice and Public Security (Sejusp) and the federal Ministry of Justice and Public Security.[3]
