BOPE seizes about 420 kg of marijuana from a Palhoça house depot after neighbours' tip
Santa Catarina's BOPE special operations battalion seized about 420 kg of a substance resembling marijuana from an uninhabited house used as a drug depot in Guarda do Cubatão, Palhoça, in the early hours of 11 November 2026 after a neighbours' tip. Officers saw the tablets through a window; the load went to the Civil Police station and no arrests were announced.
🇧🇷 Guarda do Cubatão, Palhoça, Santa Catarina · Brazil
Officers of Santa Catarina’s Military Police seized about 420 kilograms of a
substance resembling marijuana from a house used as a drug depot in the Guarda
do Cubatão area of Palhoça, in Greater Florianópolis, in the early hours of
Wednesday 11 November 2026.[1]Neighbours had told police the house was
uninhabited and used only to store drugs, with a large quantity inside.[2]A
team from CATE, the special tactical actions company of the BOPE special
operations battalion, went to the address.[3]
From outside, officers smelled a strong odour of marijuana and saw the drugs
piled up inside through a glass window.[3]They knocked, but no one answered;
they entered and confirmed the load: tablets wrapped in coloured paper, stacked
in red, blue and pink layers.[3]
The Military Police described the seizure as an integrated BOPE operation, with
officers working without interruption to locate the drugs.[1]All the material
was loaded into the bed of a police vehicle and taken to the Civil Police
station in Palhoça, where it was presented to the police authority.[2]The
Military Police did not say whether anyone had been identified or arrested.[3]
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Cover photo captioned on the page as marijuana tablets wrapped in coloured paper seized by BOPE in Palhoça.Photo details
The Military Police put the weight at approximately 420 kg of a substance analogous to marijuana, while TopElegance and Jornal Razão reported more than 420 kg of marijuana; the report uses 420 kg.
No laboratory confirmation of the seized substance was reported.
Police did not say whether anyone was identified or arrested, and no charge or court outcome was reported.
No precise weight, tablet count or street value was published.
The owner or occupant of the house and the origin and intended destination of the load were not reported.
The exact street of the house is not named; the coordinates are the OpenStreetMap centre of the Guarda do Cubatão neighbourhood.
The two news outlets' accounts closely follow the Military Police statement and are not fully independent.
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