Federal Police serve warrants in two states in Operation Pinotus
Brazil's Federal Police launched Operation Pinotus on 6 November 2026, serving arrest warrants in Camboriú, Santa Catarina, and Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, plus one search warrant in the state capital. The force said the investigation began with the seizure of about 167 kg of marijuana in Corumbá in September 2025 and targets a group accused of drug trafficking and violent crime.
🇧🇷 Camboriú, Santa Catarina, and Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul · Brazil
The Federal Police launched Operation Pinotus on Friday 6 November 2026 against
a criminal organisation involved in drug trafficking and violent crime.[1][2]The
investigation began after the seizure of about 167 kg of marijuana in Corumbá,
on Mato Grosso do Sul’s border with Bolivia, in September 2025.[1][2]Officers
served arrest warrants in Camboriú, Santa Catarina, and in Campo Grande, Mato
Grosso do Sul, and carried out one search warrant in the state capital.[1][2]
Correio do Estado reported that federal officers carried out search warrants in
Campo Grande and arrest warrants in Camboriú during the same operation.[3]Capital do Pantanal reported that investigators traced the seized load to a
structured network suspected of using violence to control drug distribution
routes.[4]The Diário Corumbaense attributed the account of the 167 kg seizure
to the Federal Police’s press office.[5]
The police said the operation aimed to dismantle the group and identify other
members, financiers and collaborators, and to prevent further violent crime.[1]The investigation continued after the operation, with the police saying
they would clarify the extent of the group’s activities.[1]
The operation’s name comes from Pinotus, the scientific name of a dung beetle
that rolls waste into balls and buries it, used here for the force’s work of
removing what is harmful to society.[5]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
No number of arrest warrants, arrests or people charged was published; the Diário Corumbaense reports warrants served but gives no count.
No seizure of marijuana or other drugs during the 6 November 2026 operation was reported, and no weight or value is recorded for it.
The Federal Police statement gives only 'September 2025' for the Corumbá seizure that started the case, without a day; no separate tracker report of that seizure was found.
The report's place is given as two cities; the coordinates are those of Camboriú, one of the two cities where warrants were served.
No charges, custody decisions or court outcome were reported; the investigation was continuing.
Folha MS reports from the same Federal Police account as the other outlets and does not say whether anyone was arrested under the warrants.
Military police and the Federal Police-coordinated Ficco task force arrested three men after finding cannabis-derivative laboratories in a Sumaré house and a Nova Odessa apartment with three indoor grow tents. Police linked the sites to dry and ice cannabis products and reported about 3.6 kg of marijuana, plus cocaine and production equipment.
Três Lagoas's women's police station carried out Operação Sclopetum on 4 November 2026, serving seven warrants in Três Lagoas and Inocência and detaining two men: one for breaching a protection order and one whose house held cannabis, seeds, a scale and two grow tents. The second man was charged with drug trafficking, and no weight or number of plants was published.
Federal Police launched Operation Caronte on 4 November 2026 to dismantle a suspected interstate trafficking network first identified after a 25 kg cannabis seizure in Barra do Garças in July 2023. Officers are executing three preventive arrest warrants and five search warrants in Amazonas and Ceará under court orders.
Military Police seized 34.59 kg of cannabis in about 100 tablets and two sacks from a house in Aclimação, Uberlândia, on 3 November 2026. Two men aged 35 and 38 were arrested and taken to the on-duty Civil Police station with the drugs and other seized items.
