Five held with 130 kg of cannabis on MT-343 between Porto Estrela and Barra do Bugres
Four men and a woman were arrested before dawn on 6 November 2026 carrying marijuana, skunk and hashish in two cars on the MT-343 in Mato Grosso, in a joint operation with border units. Besides 130 kilograms of cannabis products, officers found coca paste and cocaine and valued the whole load and the two cars at 979,300 reais.
🇧🇷 MT-343 between Porto Estrela and Barra do Bugres, Mato Grosso · Brazil
Arrested
5
Cannabis
130 kg
Agencies
Grupo Especial de Fronteira (Gefron), Delegacia Especializada de Repressão aos Crimes de Fronteira (Defron) +4
Four men and one woman were arrested before dawn on Friday 6 November 2026 on
the MT-343 between Porto Estrela and Barra do Bugres in Mato Grosso, carrying
drugs in two cars.[1]Officers stopped the two cars at around 1am during
Operação Faro Protetor das Divisas e Fronteiras, a joint state security-force
operation against drug trafficking and other crimes in the border region, and
found six sacks of drugs in the boots.[1]
The sacks held 100 kilograms of marijuana, 20 kilograms of skunk, 10 kilograms
of hashish, 12 kilograms of coca paste and nine kilograms of cocaine
hydrochloride.[1]Police put the damage to organised crime at 979,300 reais,
counting both the drugs and the two cars seized.[1]The total seized was
described as approximately 150 kilograms of drugs in reports published on 6
November.[2]
The five suspects, the vehicles and the drugs were taken to the Special Border
Police Station (Defron) in Cáceres, which handles border crime investigations.[1]The operation brought together Gefron, the border task force, Defron, the
12th Independent Military Police Company of Barra do Bugres, the Porto Estrela
military police unit, the BOPE special operations battalion and the Mato Grosso
military fire service.[3]
Police had not said where the load came from, where it was going, whether the
two cars had travelled together or whether the detainees were linked to a
criminal organisation.[1]
Photos and video
Drugs seized in the security-force operation on the MT-343 between Porto Estrela and Barra do Bugres.Photo details
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
5
Cannabis
130 kg
Value (official estimate)
BRL 979,300
Agencies
Grupo Especial de Fronteira (Gefron); Delegacia Especializada de Repressão aos Crimes de Fronteira (Defron); 12ª Companhia Independente da Polícia Militar de Barra do Bugres; Núcleo de Polícia Militar de Porto Estrela; Batalhão de Operações Policiais Especiais (BOPE); Corpo de Bombeiros Militar de Mato Grosso (CBMMT)
Midia Jurmidiajur.com.brPTGefron apreende quase R$ 1 milhão em drogas e prende cinco pessoas em MT
Plantão TGAplantaotga.comPTOperação apreende cerca de 150 quilos de drogas e conduz cinco suspeitos na MT-343, em Mato Grosso
Open questions the AI reported
The 979,300 reais figure is a police estimate covering the drugs and the two seized cars together, not the cannabis alone or a market price stated separately.
The total of about 151 kilograms of drugs includes cocaine and coca paste; only the 100 kilograms of marijuana, 20 kilograms of skunk and 10 kilograms of hashish are recorded as cannabis here.
The skunk is described by the sources as a cannabis variety, and it is counted with the marijuana rather than as a separate product weight in the 130-kilogram cannabis total.
Police had not published the suspects' identities, their judicial situation, where the load came from or where it was going.
No charges or court outcome were reported; the five were presented to Defron in Cáceres for investigation.
Two accounts describe the second car as a Chevrolet Onix Plus and one as a Chevrolet Prisma, and give different numbers of tablets per substance; the reports used here give only weights.
No figure for the number of plants was involved and no field was seized; this was a transport seizure only.
In Portuguese, 'pasta base' is coca paste, a cocaine product, and is not counted as cannabis.
Paraná's Border Police Battalion and federal agencies seized 7,781 kg of marijuana and skunk hidden in a maize load on a bitrem truck stopped on BR-163 near Marechal Cândido Rondon, and arrested a 30-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman. The operation, part of Operação Protetor, ran from 10 to 11 November 2026, and the battalion put the loss to organised crime at R$16,318,000.
Military Police in Lajinha found 58 marijuana tablets hidden in a stove in an abandoned house on 10 November 2026 and seized 62 tablets in all. A 20-year-old was arrested and a 17-year-old was taken into custody, and both were taken to the Civil Police station in Manhuaçu.
Federal Highway Police officers seized a load of marijuana hidden inside two fiberglass boats transported in a box truck during an inspection on the BR-277 in Cascavel, Paraná. The driver was released after showing he was unaware of the drugs, which were on their way from Missal to Rio de Janeiro.
Shock Company officers seized about 10 kg of marijuana hidden in scrubland in Pescaria, on Maceio's northern coast, after an anonymous tip during a patrol. The drugs were taken to the Central de Flagrantes, and no arrests were reported.
