El País reported on Monday 17 August 2026 that the prosecutor general’s office had confirmed sentences for three Uruguayan men who exported marijuana to Brazil with members of the Primeiro Comando da Capital.[1] The cases followed Operación Sicilia, five simultaneous raids on Friday 14 August by the Montevideo anti-drug brigade, in Montevideo, Canelones and Maldonado.[1] The interior ministry said the four people detained were Uruguayan.[1]
The second-turn narcotics prosecution obtained a final sentence, by abbreviated process, of four years and four months for one man, for repeated drug export, money laundering by conversion, and aggravated receiving of stolen goods.[1] Two others were sentenced to two years, for assisting drug-trafficking activity, and two years and two months, for a continuing offence of supplying prohibited drugs.[1] El País said investigations for those two sentences were continuing.[1] A fourth man was charged and remanded until February 2027.[1]
Besides marijuana, the raids seized 747 MDMA tablets, 40 grams of crystals and 356 grams of cocaine, more than 10,000 US dollars in mixed cash, a pickup, ten phones, five laptops, two precision scales and an electronic key for cryptocurrency.[1] The court also confiscated part of a rural property and its buildings in Canelones.[1]
