Military Police arrested a 19-year-old suspected of drug trafficking on the night of Monday 9 November 2026 in a shed on Rua Antonio Boaventura Batista in Vila Celeste, Ipatinga.[1][2][3][4][5] Officers went to the property after receiving information that it was used to store drugs, and the youth authorized the team’s entry and pointed out the drugs’ hiding place.[1][3][4][5]

Police seized 20 packages of marijuana, 12 portions of hashish, a bar of cocaine base paste, three precision scales and a cell phone.[1][2][3][5] A second account identifies the marijuana as Colombian Gold type and additionally lists 31 portions of cocaine and an iPhone 11 among the seized items.[6][4]

The suspect told police he had kept the material in the shed for about seven months and intended to distribute it.[1][2][3][4][5] He said he was keeping the drugs in the property for a relative.[6][4] He was arrested in the act for drug trafficking and taken with the seized material to the Civil Police station, where an inquiry was opened to investigate the case.[6][3][4][5] Police are also investigating a possible link between the case and other serious crimes recently recorded in Vila Celeste.[6] Police identified the relative as the youth’s cousin Diele Rodrigues de Souza, who was shot dead on 8 November, and stated that the youth admitted intending to sell the deceased cousin’s drugs to finance new shipments.[4]