Military police arrested a man for drug trafficking on the afternoon of Friday 23 October 2026 at kilometre 252 of highway SP-350, in the rural zone of Itobi, São Paulo.[1] Officers had been tipped by the municipal civil guard of São José do Rio Pardo that a suspect was buying drugs in large quantity, and they located the car he was driving.[1] Portal Rio Pardo, which placed the stop on the night of the same Friday, said the car was a white Volkswagen Gol and that the driver was caught in the act on suspicion of trafficking.[2]
While officers followed him, he threw a bag that they later found, containing nine wraps of cannabis.[1] A personal search also turned up eight microtubes of cocaine.[1] In all, police seized 36 grams of cannabis, eight grams of cocaine, a mobile phone and the car.[1] The photo caption on the Gazeta report put the seized drugs at 45 grams altogether.[1]
He was taken to the police station in Casa Branca, where the case was recorded as drug trafficking, and he remained detained at the disposal of the courts.[1] Duty delegate Guilherme Souza Gomes Filho ratified the in-flagrante arrest for drug trafficking and ordered the car and phone held for forensic examination.[2] Before that, the man was taken to the municipal polyclinic in Itobi for a body examination, which found no injuries, and he was then held in the local public jail.[2]
