1.5 kg of marijuana found gift-wrapped in a bus parcel in Macaíba
Federal Highway Police found about 1.5 kg of marijuana inside a gift-wrapped box in the luggage hold of a Natal–São Tomé bus at kilometre 294 of BR-304 in Macaíba, Rio Grande do Norte, on 13 December 2024. No one was arrested, and police said they were trying to identify who sent and who was to receive the parcel.
🇧🇷 km 294, BR-304, Macaíba, Rio Grande do Norte · Brazil
Federal Highway Police officers found about 1.5 kg of marijuana in a box wrapped
as a gift while inspecting a bus at kilometre 294 of BR-304 in Macaíba, in
Greater Natal, on the night of Friday 13 December 2024.[1]No one was
arrested: the parcel had been sent as unaccompanied cargo, so neither the sender
nor the addressee was on the bus.[1]Officers opened the parcel after noticing
the characteristic smell of the drug and finding the box had no identification
while no passenger claimed it.[1]
The Federal Highway Police said it found the suspicious parcel in the luggage
hold of a bus running the Natal to São Tomé line.[1]
The drug was taken to the on-duty police station for the southern zone of Natal,
and police said investigations would continue to identify who was responsible.[1]
The same account of Friday night’s inspection at kilometre 294 was published by
Novo Notícias, which said the parcel’s sender and recipient were not on the bus
when it was found.[2]
Novo Notícias reported that the Federal Highway Police said it would keep
investigating to identify who sent and who was to receive the drug.[2]
A TARDE, citing the Federal Highway Police, also gave the date of the inspection
as 13 December and reported the box was carefully gift-wrapped.[3]
A TARDE reported that because the drugs had been sent as a parcel, the sender
and the recipient were not in the vehicle.[3]
Photos and video
The gift-wrapped box in which the Federal Highway Police found 1.5 kg of marijuana. Photo: PRF/CedidaPhoto details
No one was arrested, and no sender, recipient or suspect was named.
No charges, court outcome or later investigative step was reported.
The box is described as holding 1.5 kg of marijuana, but no number of tablets or packages inside it was given.
G1, Novo Notícias and A TARDE all reproduce the same Federal Highway Police account; the agency's own statement page for this occurrence could not be opened, and no fully independent account was found.
The page photo is a police handout of the gift-wrapped box judged by its caption and credit; whether the drug itself is visible in it could not be checked.
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