Driver held in Ourinhos with 19.66 kg of hashish hidden in a Fiat Mobi
Federal Highway Police stopped a 30-year-old app driver at kilometre 338 of the BR-153 in Ourinhos, São Paulo state, and found 19.66 kg of hashish in 38 packages hidden in the car's doors and air ducts. The man, who also had an open civil arrest warrant, told officers he was to be paid for carrying the load loaded in Foz do Iguaçu, and he was taken to the Civil Police in Ourinhos with the drug.
Federal Highway Police officers stopped a 30-year-old app driver at kilometre
338 of the BR-153 in Ourinhos, São Paulo state, at about 11:30 on Friday 6
November 2026.[1][2]A check of police systems showed an open civil arrest
warrant against him.[1][2]
The officers took the driver and the car to a nearby PRF base because the
motorway shoulder was unsafe, and there, during a search, they found 38
invólucros of hashish hidden in the car doors and air ducts of the Fiat Mobi,
totalizando 19,66 quilos da droga.[1][2]The man was arrested and taken with the
car, a mobile phone and the hashish to the Civil Police station in Ourinhos.[1][2]
He told officers he accepted the job of carrying the drug because of financial
difficulties, and said the car and its key were loaded for him at a fuel station
in Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná, without his knowing who sent or would receive the
load.[1]The case was handed to the Civil Police, which is to investigate
where the drug came from and where it was going.[1]
Photos and video
The page picture published with the report carries only the credit 'Foto: Reprodução' and no caption, so it is linked without being described as showing the seized car.Photo details
Only one accessible source for this seizure was found; searches in Portuguese returned no PRF statement or other outlet to corroborate it.
The report names no charge; the driver was taken to the Civil Police station, and the investigation stage is used because no charge was reported.
No street value or laboratory confirmation of the substance was published.
The driver's identity, the destination of the load and the outcome of the civil warrant were not reported.
The article's own page caption credits the single photo only as 'Foto: Reprodução' and does not say what it depicts, so it is linked rather than treated as a photograph of the seized car.
The article gives no date for the warrant's issue or for the loading in Foz do Iguaçu, and does not say whether the load crossed the border or was loaded in the city.
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