Two women were arrested in flagrante on the morning of Thursday 5 November 2026 while trying to enter the Desembargador Sílvio Porto penitentiary, in the Mangabeira neighbourhood of João Pessoa, with drugs and illicit objects.[1] The material was hidden inside ointment tubes and was detected by penal police officers during inspection of the visitors’ supplies.[1]

The attempt to introduce the illicit items into the prison unit was stopped when the packages passed through the food-scanner equipment used by the inspection.[1] When they analysed the scanner images, the agents identified suspicious densities in the structure of the product.[1] In the physical check of the tubes, the Paraíba Penal Police team found portions of cocaine, hashish and silver chains hidden in place of the ointment.[1]

Faced with the flagrant offence, the two visitors were placed under arrest on the spot.[1] They were taken, together with all the seized material, to the Central de Polícia Civil in the Paraíba capital, where they underwent the applicable legal procedures and will answer for drug trafficking and attempting to introduce illicit items into a prison establishment.[1]