Highway police arrested a man in Ourinhos, São Paulo state, on the afternoon of Sunday 8 November 2026 after finding more than 4.5 tonnes of cannabis and a rifle in the truck he was driving.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] Teams of the Tático Ostensivo Rodoviário (TOR), the military highway police’s patrol unit, stopped it at about 15:25 at a highway policing base during Operação Impacto[1][9][10][6][7][11][12], after the Paraná branch of the Força Integrada de Combate ao Crime Organizado (FICCO), an integrated anti-organised-crime task force, passed on information about the truck.[7][12] One account places the stop on the Raposo Tavares highway (SP-270)[2], others at kilometre 28 of the SP-327.[3][8]

The load

Officers searched a Volvo FH 460 truck pulling a trailer loaded with bags of meat-and-bone meal[1][3][5][6][11][13]; other accounts describe the cargo as flour.[8][12] Hidden under it were 5,100 tablets of cannabis weighing 4,535 kilograms.[1][2][3][4][9][10][5][6][8][11] A 7.62-calibre rifle with no ammunition and no identifiable make, model or origin was in the same place.[1][2][3][14][6][7][8] The highway police estimated the loss to drug trafficking at 9.1 million reais[1][2][3][9][10][5][6][8][11][13], and the drug and weapon were sent for forensic examination.[15]

The investigation

The operation was carried out with the São Paulo and Paraná branches of FICCO[16][4][9][5][6], which in Paraná is made up of the Federal Police, the Paraná Military Police, the National Secretariat for Penal Policies and the Federal Highway Police.[14][7] The Federal Police described it as a joint action of FICCO/PR and the São Paulo Military Police.[14]

The driver, who has a criminal record, was presented at the Federal Police station in Marília and remained in custody at the disposal of the courts.[1][15][2][3][4][9][10][5][6][8][11][13] He said he did not know about the drug and had stopped in the Medianeira region of western Paraná, near the border with Paraguay[7][12]; the Federal Police said the truck had left Paraná and was bound for Rio de Janeiro.[14][12]