Driver flees PRF with 245.6 kg of marijuana, stopped with teenager in Lindoeste
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.
🇧🇷 Lindoeste, Paraná · Brazil
Arrested
2
Cannabis
245.6 kg
Vehicles confiscated
1
Federal Highway Police officers stopped a white Chevrolet Onix that had fled an
inspection on the BR-163 in Lindoeste, western Paraná, and seized245.6
kilograms of marijuana from it.[1]The driver ignored the stop order and fled
along the highway, and a tactical pursuit followed into the urban area of
Lindoeste, where officers intercepted the car.[1]
Two people were in the car: the driver, aged 25, and a 16-year-old adolescent in
the passenger seat.[2]Officers found bundles of marijuana spread through the
car, part on the rear seat and the rest in the boot, which weighed a total of
245.6 kilograms.[3]
Both occupants were taken with the car and the drug to the Civil Police station
in Cascavel for the legal procedures.[1]The driver was taken on suspicion of
drug trafficking, while the adolescent was sent for the procedures provided for
minors.[1]
The occurrence was registered at about 21:00 during a roadside inspection by
federal highway police officers.[1]
The Federal Highway Police gave no origin for the marijuana, no destination for
the load and said nothing about previous records of those involved.[1]
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Maconha apreendida: PRF recolhe 245,6 quilos de droga em carro que fugiu de fiscalização na BR-163, em Lindoeste, no Paraná - Foto: PRFPhoto details
The accounts give no name, criminal record or court outcome for either occupant; the case was at the investigation stage when reported.
The Mídia Sudoeste report credits its text to the PRF, so the three accounts reproduce one agency account rather than being independent reporting.
No street value, plant count or cultivation area was published for the load.
The reports do not say how far the tactical pursuit ran on the BR-163 before the car entered the urban area of Lindoeste, so the precise kilometre point of the stop order is unknown.
Coordinates are those of the centre of Lindoeste, the named municipality, not of the point on the BR-163 where the inspection took place.
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