Military police arrested 19-year-old Edney da Silva Lima, known as Menino Ney, in flagrante delicto at about 22:30 on Tuesday 3 November 2026 on Rua Treze in Comunidade Mundo Novo, Cidade Nova, in the North Zone of Manaus.[1] The arrest for drug trafficking was made by a tactical ostensive patrol team of the Rondas Ostensivas Cândido Mariano, known as Rocam.[1]

When officers arrived, Menino Ney tried to flee by jumping over the property wall, but the area was already surrounded and officers arrested him in flagrante.[1] Inside the house where he allegedly kept a drug-selling point, officers found several portions of drugs including skunk marijuana and oxi stones, along with cash and a precision scale.[1]

Rocam officers said they had received complaints in previous days that a boca de fumo, a street-level drug-selling point, was operating almost every night on that street.[1] The detained young man told police that his father, whose name was not disclosed, had also recently been arrested in the same community for drug trafficking.[1] He was then presented at the 6th DIP, the district police station, for the applicable legal procedures.[1]