Two held after 62 marijuana tablets found in a stove in Lajinha
Military Police in Lajinha found 58 marijuana tablets hidden in a stove in an abandoned house on 10 November 2026 and seized 62 tablets in all. A 20-year-old was arrested and a 17-year-old was taken into custody, and both were taken to the Civil Police station in Manhuaçu.
🇧🇷 Bairro Vale das Pedras, Lajinha, Minas Gerais · Brazil
Arrested
2
Agencies
Polícia Militar, Delegacia de Polícia Civil de Manhuaçu
Military Police officers found 58 tablets of marijuana hidden inside a stove in
an abandoned house in the Vale das Pedras neighbourhood of Lajinha, in the Zona
da Mata of Minas Gerais, on Tuesday 10 November 2026.[1]A 20-year-old man was
arrested and a 17-year-old adolescent was taken into custody.[1]In all, the
officers collected 62 tablets of the drug.[1]
After receiving reports of drug sales in the area, the officers carried out an
operation at a former car wash on Rua José Fortunato de Abreu Filho.[1]When
they noticed the police, the suspects tried to flee toward a wooded area.[1]During the searches, officers found the 58 tablets hidden in the stove in the
abandoned house.[1]They then located the two suspects and seized another four
tablets of the same drug and two mobile phones from them.[1]
The young man was arrested for drug trafficking, association for trafficking and
corruption of minors.[1]The adolescent was taken into custody for involvement
in the incident.[1]Both were taken to the Civil Police station in Manhuaçu
with the seized material.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
2
Agencies
Polícia Militar; Delegacia de Polícia Civil de Manhuaçu
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis
Activity
Sale, Trafficking
Setting
Home, Other building
Charges
tráfico de drogas; associação para o tráfico; corrupção de menores
Case stage
Under investigation
Region
Minas Gerais
Sources
O TEMPOotempo.com.brPTPolícia encontra 58 tabletes de maconha escondidos dentro de fogão em casa abandonada em MG
Open questions the AI reported
No weight was published for the 62 tablets, so no kilogram figure is recorded.
The two people were not named, and no custody hearing or court outcome was reported.
The 17-year-old was taken into juvenile custody rather than formally arrested as an adult; both are counted as people detained.
The account rests on a single news report of the Military Police operation.
Coordinates are the town centre of Lajinha, not a surveyed point in Vale das Pedras.
Santa Catarina's BOPE special operations battalion seized about 420 kg of a substance resembling marijuana from an uninhabited house used as a drug depot in Guarda do Cubatão, Palhoça, in the early hours of 11 November 2026 after a neighbours' tip. Officers saw the tablets through a window; the load went to the Civil Police station and no arrests were announced.
Federal Highway Police arrested a 44-year-old truck driver in the early hours of 11 November 2026 after finding more than half a tonne of skunk, about 591 packages, in a false bottom of his truck's cargo body at km 319 of the BR-070 in Jussara, Goiás. The load had left Cacoal, Rondônia, bound for Goiânia, and the driver was to be paid R$10,000.
Paraná's Border Police Battalion and federal agencies seized 7,781 kg of marijuana and skunk hidden in a maize load on a bitrem truck stopped on BR-163 near Marechal Cândido Rondon, and arrested a 30-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman. The operation, part of Operação Protetor, ran from 10 to 11 November 2026, and the battalion put the loss to organised crime at R$16,318,000.
Federal Highway Police officers seized 245.6 kilograms of marijuana from a white Chevrolet Onix that fled an inspection on the BR-163 in Lindoeste, western Paraná, on the night of 10 November 2026. The 25-year-old driver and a 16-year-old passenger were taken with the car and the drug to the Civil Police station in Cascavel.
