Three men were caught in the act and arrested during an operation in the municipality of Iracema, Roraima, on Tuesday 10 November 2026.[1] The operation was carried out by Roraima’s integrated task force against organised crime, FICCO/RR, which brings together the Federal Police, Civil Police, Military Police, state penal police and the public security secretariat.[1]
The action began with intelligence on the whereabouts of a suspect who had escaped during Operation Just in Time, an earlier FICCO sweep that arrested 11 people in Boa Vista in October.[1] Officers tracked the fugitive to a bar near a municipal school in Iracema, where surveillance revealed rapid visits typical of retail drug sales.[1] When officers approached, two men tried to flee while a third remained inside, and one fleeing suspect threw away a wrap of skunk that police recovered.[1] Searches inside the bar and an adjoining room yielded portions of skunk, crack and cocaine, together with more than R$ 6,000 in cash.[1]
At a neighbouring residence belonging to one of the suspects, officers discovered about 5 kg of skunk hidden inside an old washing machine.[1] Further searches at a farm near the Rio Branco uncovered about 4 kg of crack and three precision scales.[1] The three men were taken to the Federal Police regional superintendency in Roraima to formalise their arrests in flagrante.[1] The three suspects remained in custody at the disposal of the courts as investigations continued to identify other people involved and map the drug distribution network.[2]
