Paraguayan, 22, arrested with 5 kg of cannabis in motorcycle box
Paraná's Border Police Battalion arrested a 22-year-old Paraguayan man in Marechal Cândido Rondon on 9 November 2026 after finding more than five kilograms of cannabis in the storage box of a motorcycle with Paraguayan plates. He told officers he was to be paid 1,000 reais to transport the drug.
Military police from Paraná’s Border Police Battalion arrested a 22-year-old
Paraguayan man in Marechal Cândido Rondon on the afternoon of Monday 9 November
2026.[1][2]Officers said the man was nervous and gave contradictory answers when
they approached him.[1][2]A search of his person found the key to a motorcycle
with a Paraguayan plate parked nearby.[1][2]
In the motorcycle’s storage box officers found more than five kilograms of
cannabis of the morruga type, a local name for pressed blocks of marijuana.[1][2]Questioned about the drug, the man said he was to receive 1,000 reais for
transporting it.[1][2]The Border Police Battalion arrested him and sent him for
the applicable procedures; he remained at the disposal of the courts.[1]
Photos and video
A Paraná military police vehicle of the Border Police Battalion, photographed where the 22-year-old was arrested in Marechal Cândido Rondon. Photo: Correio do LagoPhoto details
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