PRF seizes 26 tonnes of cannabis hidden under corn in Iguatemi
Brazil's Federal Highway Police seized 26,070 kilograms of marijuana, two pistols, a revolver and 289 rounds from a truck supposedly carrying only corn in Iguatemi on 28 May 2024, arresting the driver and a passenger.
Brazil’s Federal Highway Police stopped a truck in Iguatemi, Mato Grosso do Sul, on the morning
of Tuesday 28 May 2024 after intelligence that it was carrying drugs and weapons from the
border area, and the driver at once admitted the trailer supposed to hold only corn was loaded
with marijuana received in Aral Moreira and bound for Lajeado in Rio Grande do Sul.[1][2]
Officers recovered 26,070 kilograms of marijuana along with two pistols, a revolver and 289
rounds of ammunition.[1]
The two people in the truck were arrested and taken with the drugs, the weapons and the trailer
to the Federal Police in Naviraí.[1]The seizure was the force’s largest marijuana seizure of
the year so far and ranks among the ten largest in its history.[1]
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The seized truck and its cannabis load in IguatemiPhoto details
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