Driver arrested as 4,086 kg of marijuana found in a truck in Palmital
Military highway police arrested the driver of a truck at Palmital, São Paulo, in the early hours of 11 November 2026 after finding 4,086.680 kg of marijuana hidden among a load of pumpkins on the Raposo Tavares highway. The 31-year-old man was held in flagrante for drug trafficking at the disposal of the courts, and police put the loss to trafficking at 8.17 million reais.
🇧🇷 Rodovia Raposo Tavares (SP-270), Palmital, São Paulo · Brazil
Arrested
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Cannabis
4.08668 t
Vehicles confiscated
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Agencies
Tático Ostensivo Rodoviário (TOR), Polícia Militar Rodoviária
Military highway police arrested the driver of a truck at Palmital, in the São
Paulo interior, in the early hours of Wednesday 11 November 2026.[1]Officers
of the Tático Ostensivo Rodoviário (TOR), the patrol unit of the 2nd Highway
Police Battalion, stopped a VW/19.320 truck at about 1 a.m. on the Raposo
Tavares highway (SP-270) during Operação Impacto.[2]Hidden among a load of
pumpkins they found 172 bales of marijuana.[1]After weighing, the drug
totalled 4,086.680 kilograms, more than four tonnes.[1]The driver, a
31-year-old man, was arrested in flagrante.[2]
The driver was taken with the truck and the drug to the Central de Polícia
Judiciária (CPJ) in Assis, where he remained in custody at the disposal of the
courts.[1]At the CPJ the driver was booked and remained in custody at the
disposal of the courts.[3]Police said the truck had left Cascavel, in Paraná,
and was bound for Rio de Janeiro, the pumpkins serving to hide the drug during
the journey.[1]The highway police estimated the seizure cost drug traffickingR$ 8,173,360.[1]
The stop was part of Operação Impacto, the highway police’s checks on São Paulo
state roads against drug trafficking and other crimes.[4]The driver was
arrested in flagrante on suspicion of drug trafficking.[5]The Civil Police
will investigate the case.[6]
Photos and video
Drugs seized from the truck that police said were to be taken to Rio de Janeiro, in the highway police handout photo published with the report. Photo: Polícia Militar RodoviáriaPhoto details
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The driver's name was not published.
No charge or court decision was reported beyond the arrest in flagrante and his detention at the disposal of the courts.
The 8,173,360-real figure is a police estimate of the loss to drug trafficking, not a confirmed street price.
The kilometre of the stop on the SP-270 was not published.
All the accounts carry the same highway-police figures, so they may derive from a single police release rather than independent reporting.
Brigada Militar officers arrested a man in flagrante for drug trafficking at Praça da República in the centre of Ijuí, Rio Grande do Sul, on 11 November 2026, after a tip-off that he would collect drugs there. A search of his backpack found two bricks of marijuana weighing 816 grams, four further portions weighing 420 grams and a precision scale.
Military police arrested two women in Arapiraca on 11 November 2026 after a tip that a passenger on a bus from Bahia was carrying drugs to the city bus terminal. Officers seized 471 grams of pressed cannabis, along with cocaine, crack, cash and scales, and booked both women for drug trafficking and association for trafficking.
Military Police arrested a 27-year-old man on the MT-248 in Araputanga after finding four tablets of a substance analogous to marijuana in his backpack. He said he would be paid R$ 1,000 to carry the drug from Pontes e Lacerda to Araputanga.
Civil Police officers in Bauru arrested a 25-year-old man for drug trafficking during a search warrant at a house in the Jardim Vitória neighbourhood on the afternoon of 11 November 2026, seizing several portions of marijuana and a precision scale. The investigation followed reports of an illegal firearm, possible drug sales and stolen goods at the address.
