Military Police in Guajará-Mirim detained a 15-year-old boy carrying about 13 kilos of cannabis during a stop on the night of Monday 9 November 2026.[1] The cannabis had been brought from Bolivia and was to be carried on to Porto Velho.[1] The stop was made under Operation Madeira-Mamoré II, after officers learned that a white Volkswagen Gol had picked up a passenger carrying a backpack near the Pérola Negra clandestine port in the Triângulo neighbourhood.[1] Police intercepted the car at the crossing of Constitution and Princesa Isabel avenues and found the boy in the back seat with a backpack holding 24 tablets of a substance resembling cannabis, along with a mobile phone, 15 hand-rolled joints and one portion of the drug.[1]

The boy told officers he would be paid 1,000 reais to fetch the drug in Guayaramerín, Bolivia, cross the Mamoré river and carry it to Porto Velho.[1] The 22-year-old driver said she works for an app and did not know the backpack’s contents.[1] The boy was detained for an act amounting to drug trafficking and taken to the Civil Police station with his mother, with the seized material handed to the authorities.[1] The same account is published by Portal SGC, which states the 15-year-old was detained with about 13 kilos of cannabis brought from Bolivia that was to be carried to Porto Velho, confirming the incident.[2]