Couple arrested with 19 cannabis bars in Juiz de Fora
Military police in Juiz de Fora arrested a 24-year-old man and a 21-year-old woman accused of storing drugs for the Comando Vermelho. Officers recovered 19 bars of maconha with the help of sniffer dogs after the couple allegedly threw them from a balcony into a neighbouring scrapyard.
🇧🇷 Bairro São Judas Tadeu, Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais · Brazil
Military police arrested a couple suspected of storing drugs for the Comando
Vermelho (CV) in an apartment with 19 bars of maconha on the night of Wednesday
4 November 2026 in Juiz de Fora, in the Zona da Mata of Minas Gerais.[1][2][3][4]Police said the apartment was used as a depot for drugs belonging to members of
the criminal faction.[1][4]The suspects were a 24-year-old man and a 21-year-old
woman.[1][2][4]Both resisted arrest, and the woman received care at a health unit
before she and her partner were taken to the police station with the seized
materials.[1][4]
The operation took place in the São Judas Tadeu neighbourhood to check reports
that the apartment was storing drugs.[1][4]Officers found the drugs in a
scrapyard next to the building.[1][2][4]Police said the couple had thrown the
maconha bars from the balcony to hide them, and sniffer dogs Brasão and Rakissa
helped find the drugs in the lot beside the building.[1][2][3][4]Alongside the 19
maconha tablets, officers seized a precision scale and two mobile phones.[1][3][4]
During patrols in São Judas Tadeu, officers were told that members of the
criminal organisation were storing drugs in an apartment on Rua José Paulino
Sobrinho.[5]The couple responsible for the apartment were arrested in
flagrante for drug trafficking.[5][6]After resisting the approach, the suspects
were detained and taken to a Civil Police station.[5]The second account
described the apartment as a “guarda-roupa”, a stash house, for the faction.[5]
The occurrence was recorded at about 18h25.[2]The two seized phones were described as a blue Samsung and a white iPhone.[2]A team from Ronda Ostensiva com Cães (Rocca) was called in to help with the searches.[2]
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Source: Hoje em DiaSniffer dogs Brasão and Rakissa with the seized material after the couple allegedly threw 19 cannabis bars into a neighbouring scrapyard in Juiz de Fora. Photo: PMMG/ReproduçãoPhoto details
No weight was published for the 19 bars or tablets of maconha, so no kilograms can be recorded.
The suspects were identified only by age and sex, with no names published.
No charges, custody decision or court outcome were reported beyond arrest in flagrante and referral to the Civil Police.
The incident date of 4 November 2026 is the night before the 5 November 2026 publications, as stated in both accounts.
Both accounts repeat the Military Police version; no separate agency statement was opened.
The listed photo is a police handout image carried by the outlet, not an independently confirmed image of the seizure.
The Estado de Minas account says the drugs were thrown from the balcony (varanda), while the Rádio 93 FM account says they were thrown from the apartment window (janela).
The Estado de Minas account places the arrest in the afternoon and records the occurrence at about 18h25, while the Rádio 93 FM account describes the arrest on Wednesday night.
Vertentes das Gerais credits Hoje em Dia, an outlet the report already cites, so this account repeats rather than independently reports the Military Police version.
Vertentes das Gerais dates the arrest to the Wednesday night and gives no time for the police approach.
This account dates the apprehension to the night of Wednesday 4 November, while the Estado de Minas account cited in the report places the arrest in the afternoon with the occurrence recorded at about 18h25.
No weight was published for the 19 bars in this account either, so no kilograms can be added.
The scrapyard is described here as a ferro-velho, a scrap-metal yard; the report calls it a lot beside the building.
BH 24 Horas attributes the account to 'a corporação' without naming a contributor, so it appears to repeat the Military Police version.
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