Military Police ROTAM officers, supported by a rural patrol team and the sniffer dog Koby, arrested three men and one woman in Palmas, Paraná, on the night of Friday 6 November 2026.[1] The operation began around 22:15 after information that a mechanic’s workshop in the Aeroporto neighbourhood was being used for drug trafficking.[1]

At the workshop officers caught two men trying to flee through the back of the property and, with the dog’s help, found more than a kilogram of marijuana and R$ 2,756 in cash with one suspect.[1] One of those involved confirmed to police that the workshop was used to divide the drugs into portions, the Military Police said.[1]

Officers then went to a house in the central area, described as a supply point, and with the owner’s permission found about five kilograms of marijuana in nine and a half tablets hidden under a red blanket where a dog slept, plus a precision scale.[1] The man at the house resisted arrest, punching and kicking officers, and police said they used moderate force to restrain him.[1]

In total officers seized 6.079 kilograms of marijuana, two precision scales, R$ 2,968 in cash, five mobile phones and two notebooks with notes on the criminal activity.[1] The four suspects and the seized material were taken to the Central de Flagrantes, the police station where arrests in the act are processed, for the applicable procedures.[1]