Military police arrested two men, aged 38 and 42, on suspicion of drug trafficking after an operation in the Nogueira Machado neighbourhood of Itaúna, Minas Gerais, on the night of Friday 6 November 2026.[1] Officers on tactical patrol approached the 38-year-old who was running along a public street carrying a bag, and a personal search found two sizeable portions of a marijuana-like substance.[1][2] During the same incident a second suspect, aged 42, was arrested.[1] The 9th Military Police Company said both men were taken to the Civil Police station with the seized material for the appropriate legal steps.[1][2]

With support from the ROCCA and GEPMOR units, officers then searched a residence where they found the rest of the drugs.[1] In total officers seized three sizeable portions of a substance resembling marijuana, various portions already divided into smaller wraps, and a mobile phone.[1] A sniffer dog, named Black in the Itaúna press, helped locate the drugs.[3] Folha do Povo Itaúna reported that officers first found marijuana portions in the street stop and then, with the dog, a cannabis slab (barra de maconha) at the property, where the second suspect was arrested.[3]

Jornal S’passo reported that the men were arrested for drug trafficking and taken to the Civil Police station.[4] Portal MPA reported that both men were arrested in flagrante for involvement in drug trafficking and remained at the disposal of the courts.[5]

The same operation also involved a separate occurrence in the Graças neighbourhood.[2]