Military Police of Minas Gerais officers arrested a 23-year-old man for drug trafficking on the night of 31 October 2026 in the Belvedere neighbourhood of Ouro Branco.[1][2] The officers were on preventive patrol in an area already subject to trafficking complaints when they saw three men acting suspiciously and approached them.[1][3][2] During the search, officers found a skank-like portion on the man, identified by the initials J.I.P.S., aged 23.[1][3] He was arrested and taken to the Civil Police together with the drugs, a precision scale and a seized mobile phone.[1][3][2]

Near the group, police also found a precision scale, zip-lock packaging and wrappers bearing traces of a marijuana-like substance.[1][2] Continued searches recovered more skank portions, a marijuana tablet, a hashish tablet and three pills described as LSD-like.[4][3][2] Police treated the seized materials and the circumstances as drug trafficking, ordering the arrest on that basis.[1] Police described the action as part of preventive patrols and approaches in places with repeated complaints about illegal activity in Ouro Branco.[1]