Officers of the BOPE special operations battalion of the Military Police of Santa Catarina arrested two men in Costeira do Pirajubaé, in Florianópolis.[1][2] The arrest took place during a police operation on Monday 9 November 2026.[1] The CATE team of BOPE went to a house on Servidão Maria Laureana Machado after receiving anonymous reports.[3] Through the glass door, officers saw the two men handling and packaging drugs.[3] According to the PMSC, the pair did not resist and admitted selling drugs at the address.[3] One of the men said he had lived in the house for about a month and sold drugs there and by tele-entrega delivery with the help of a motorcycle courier.[3] The other man said he was the courier who collected the drugs and made the deliveries to the addresses indicated.[3]
The seizure totalled about 7.1 kg of marijuana plus 160 grams of skank, a potent form of cannabis, counted here as 7.26 kg of cannabis.[1][2] Officers also seized 135 grams of cocaine, 45 grams of ice, 45 grams of MDMA and 120 grams of mushrooms, which are not counted as cannabis.[1] They also seized 150 ecstasy tablets weighing 115 grams and 16 vials of anaesthetic used as an input.[1] Searching the house, officers found more drugs inside an organiser box and a motorcycle top box built with a false bottom.[3] The BOPE team found eight .38-calibre rounds, five precision scales and three vacuum-sealing machines.[1][2] The seized materials also included a radio communicator, three rolls of plastic packaging and two mobile phones.[1]
The case was classified as drug trafficking, criminal association for trafficking and illegal possession of permitted ammunition.[1][2] The two men were taken into custody with the seized materials for the applicable legal procedures.[1]
