Military Police arrested a 32-year-old driver in Jaciara in the early hours of 8 November 2026 after finding five intact 9mm rounds and a portion of maconha in a bag in the bed of the red Chevrolet Montana he was driving.[1][2]
Intelligence from the 28th Battalion local intelligence agency said a white Chevrolet Onix and the red Montana were travelling from Cuiabá toward Jaciara and might be involved in drug trafficking and cargo robbery.[1] Officers set a roadblock at the Dom Aquino access junction and stopped the Onix first, finding nothing illicit with its driver and passenger, who were released.[1]
During that check the Montana passenger got out of the still-moving pickup and fled on foot into roadside vegetation.[1]
Police later found the Montana near Praça Tamoios in central Jaciara.[3] After a pursuit of about two kilometres the pickup was stopped in front of the Hotel Glória.[3] Inside a bag in the pickup bed officers found the five intact 9mm rounds and the maconha portion.[3]
Questioned, the driver said the ammunition and maconha belonged to the passenger who had fled.[1]
He said he had been paid R$1,600 to drive the passenger from Cuiabá to Rondonópolis via Chapada dos Guimarães, Campo Verde, Dom Aquino and Jaciara.[1] The detained driver was taken with the seized material to the Civil Police station in Jaciara with no apparent bodily injuries.[3] The case was recorded as alleged illegal possession or carrying of a restricted-use firearm and illicit drug use.[3] The passenger who fled had not been located when the police report was closed.[3]
He said he knew the passenger who fled and that both lived in the same neighbourhood.[2] Questioned, the driver said he would exercise his right to remain silent and made no further statements.[2]
