Brazil's Federal Police seize 124 kg of hashish in a truck in Eldorado do Sul
Brazil's Federal Police found 124 kg of hashish in a truck stopped on the BR-116 in flood-hit Eldorado do Sul and arrested the driver for drug trafficking. The truck, registered in Paraguay and earlier held in Uruguay over timber smuggling, was driven by a Montevideo police officer.
Brazil’s Federal Police stopped a truck in Eldorado do Sul, in the Porto Alegre
metropolitan area of Rio Grande do Sul, in the early hours of Saturday 11 May
2024.[1]Officers found 124 kilograms of hashish in the vehicle, a drug
Subrayado described as made from marijuana buds.[1]The truck was registered
in Yaguarón, Paraguay, and had been caught by Uruguayan police in 2021 bringing
contraband timber for prefabricated houses to the Lago Merín beach resort.[1]
A migration official also reported the driver for threats at that time, and the
truck was held in Uruguay for 90 days.[1]Subrayado reported that the driver
and owner of the vehicle was a police officer in Montevideo and kept carrying
freight between Brazil and Uruguay.[1]
The truck driver was arrested in the act for drug trafficking and taken to
Federal Police headquarters in Porto Alegre.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Subrayado describes the load as 124 kg of hashish, while Gazeta Brasil, also published on 11 May 2024, calls the same 124 kg seized on the BR-116 in Eldorado do Sul "skunk" and a record skunk seizure; this report uses hashish from the submitted account and records 124 kg of hashish.
Subrayado gives the location as "El dorado" without the state; Gazeta Brasil identifies Eldorado do Sul, in the Porto Alegre metropolitan region, on the BR-116.
Subrayado says the driver and owner was a police officer in Montevideo, while Gazeta Brasil describes only an unnamed truck driver arrested in the act for drug trafficking and gives no profession or ownership detail.
Only Subrayado reports that the truck was registered in Yaguarón, Paraguay, and had been held in Uruguay for 90 days in 2021 over timber smuggling.
Neither account reports the driver's name, any charge filed in court, a measure of restraint or a later court outcome; the case was at the arrest stage when they were published.
No street value for the hashish was published, and no other Brazilian reporting of this specific seizure could be opened.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Gazeta Brasil: The stop happened in flood-hit Eldorado do Sul on the BR-116 highway, where Federal Police teams moved from flood rescue work to visible patrols in Operation Esperança, or Operation Hope, a 400-officer deployment drawn from several states.
Santa Catarina's BOPE special operations battalion seized about 420 kg of a substance resembling marijuana from an uninhabited house used as a drug depot in Guarda do Cubatão, Palhoça, in the early hours of 11 November 2026 after a neighbours' tip. Officers saw the tablets through a window; the load went to the Civil Police station and no arrests were announced.
Federal Highway Police arrested a 44-year-old truck driver in the early hours of 11 November 2026 after finding more than half a tonne of skunk, about 591 packages, in a false bottom of his truck's cargo body at km 319 of the BR-070 in Jussara, Goiás. The load had left Cacoal, Rondônia, bound for Goiânia, and the driver was to be paid R$10,000.
Paraná's Border Police Battalion and federal agencies seized 7,781 kg of marijuana and skunk hidden in a maize load on a bitrem truck stopped on BR-163 near Marechal Cândido Rondon, and arrested a 30-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman. The operation, part of Operação Protetor, ran from 10 to 11 November 2026, and the battalion put the loss to organised crime at R$16,318,000.
On 11 November 2026 the Civil Police in Apucarana incinerated 6.8 tonnes of marijuana seized by the Federal Highway Police in September. That load made up most of the 10.3 tonnes seized in the Apucarana region from January to September 2026, up from 4.9 tonnes a year earlier.
