Military police arrested two young men, aged 19 and 22, on suspicion of drug trafficking during an operation on the night of Thursday 5 November 2026 on Rua Joaquim Moreira in Bairro São José, Itacarambi, in the Norte de Minas region.[1]
According to the police, the operation followed anonymous complaints about drug sales at a house in the neighbourhood, and officers who watched the address saw a steady flow of users going in and out.[2] When the patrol cars arrived, a third suspect, a 28-year-old described in the complaints as the man running the drug point, ran into the house, and officers heard people jumping walls into neighbouring properties.[1]
After the block was surrounded, the 19-year-old was caught outside the house with 15 tubes of a cocaine-like substance, R$ 50 in cash and a key that police said opened the padlock of the gate of the house named in the complaints.[1] The 22-year-old was found on the roof of a neighbouring house trying to escape, with one bar and 25 bags of a marijuana-like substance, 21 tubes and nine sachets of a cocaine-like substance, 32 crack rocks, a phone, a precision scale and R$ 3.[1]
The 28-year-old got away, and while searching nearby yards officers found a bag he had left behind containing seven more bags of marijuana, 21 cocaine tubes, 17 crack rocks, two phones and a notebook the PM said held records of the drug trade’s accounts.[1] Police also seized a Honda XRE motorcycle suspected of a link to the trade, because the engine number showed signs of tampering, and sent it for forensic examination.[1] The two arrested young men were taken to the Civil Police station together with the seized material for the arrest in flagrante to be recorded.[2]
