Man arrested with 445 g of marijuana after Rotam stop near Ivaiporã
Rotam officers stopped a car on the PR-466 in the rural area of Ivaiporã, Paraná, on the night of 5 November 2026 and found 247 grams of marijuana in it. A search of the man's home in Manoel Ribas turned up another 198 grams, and he was arrested for drug trafficking with 445 grams in total, a mobile phone and the car.
🇧🇷 PR-466, rural area of Ivaiporã, Paraná · Brazil
Rotam, the Military Police’s tactical mobile patrol unit, stopped a car on the
PR-466 in the rural area of Ivaiporã on the night of Thursday 5 November 2026
after officers noticed suspicious behaviour and a strong smell of marijuana.[1]Ivaiporã Online put the stop at 21:36, and Blog do Berimbau at about 21:30.[2]
A search of the vehicle found 247 grams of marijuana.[1]Officers then went to
the man’s home in the Santa Mariana district of Manoel Ribas, where they found
another 198 grams of marijuana.[1]In total officers seized445 grams of
marijuana, a mobile phone and the car used to carry the drug.[1][3]Military
Police said the drug was intended for sale, and the car was seized because it
was used to transport it.[4]
The man was arrested in flagrante, an arrest made at the scene of an offence,
and taken with the seized material to the Civil Police’s Central de Flagrantes,
the station that registers such arrests.[2][3]Tribuna Digital described the
detention as an arrest in flagrante for drug trafficking and listed the seized
items as one man, 445 grams of marijuana, one mobile phone for forensic
examination and one vehicle.[5]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The sources do not say what charge was formally recorded against him beyond suspicion of drug trafficking, or whether a court custody decision was made.
The stop is timed at 21:36 by Ivaiporã Online and about 21:30 by Blog do Berimbau; the two figures are near-identical accounts of the same stop.
The accounts differ on whether the search of the house in Manoel Ribas needed authorisation: Tribuna Digital says the searches were authorised, the others do not describe how it was conducted.
No usable photo of this event was found: Ivaiporã Online labels its page image as illustrative and the Jornal Paraná Centro cover carries only the generic caption Descrição da imagem.
There is no information on any prior record of the man or on his relationship to the Santa Mariana address where the second portion was found.
Military police arrested seven suspected drug traffickers in the Água Branca neighbourhood of Contagem and seized 218 kg of cannabis. The suspects, all with prior criminal records, were taken to the Contagem Civil Police station for investigation.
Civil Police arrested three men from Amazonas in a house in Cinturão Verde, Boa Vista, on 10 November 2026 with 201.5 kg of cannabis derivatives, including hashish and cannabis oil. Police valued the load at R$15 million and said it was meant for Rio de Janeiro; the men were booked for trafficking.
Military Police arrested a 36-year-old man, a 30-year-old woman and a 39-year-old buyer during a raid on a suspected drug point in Ponte Nova, Minas Gerais, on 10 November 2026. Officers seized two cannabis tablets alongside crack, cocaine, three phones, bookkeeping notes and R$2,474 in cash, transferring all three to the Civil Police.
Military Police arrested a man and a woman in a ride-hailing car on Rua Aristiliano Ramos in Timbo on 10 November 2026. Officers seized about 500 g of a hashish-like substance in five wraps from the woman's bag and took both suspects to the Civil Police station.
