Military Police arrested a man in Governador Valadares on the night of Thursday 5 November 2026 after stopping him with cocaine hidden in his pocket and socks.[1] Officers had received a tip that the man used a car to move drugs, watched a vehicle parked near a house, and approached him when he left the property towards the car.[1] During the personal search officers found one portion of cocaine in his pocket and another 10 packets hidden in his socks.[1]
The woman in the house let the officers in, and on a table in the bedroom they found 30 more cocaine packets, cling film, a card machine and cash.[1] In a cardboard box the team also found 25 tablets with the characteristics of ecstasy, one bar of material similar to cannabis, and a bag of a substance preliminarily identified as boric acid.[1] The police record said the boric acid would be used to adulterate or refine cocaine, not cannabis.[1] The haul counted in total 40 cocaine packets, one portion of the same drug, 25 ecstasy tablets, one cannabis bar, the suspected boric acid, a card machine and R$ 94 in coins.[1]
The man admitted the drugs were his, according to the Military Police, and was taken to a municipal hospital for a medical assessment before being handed to the Civil Police.[1]
