53-year-old man arrested for drug trafficking in Patos de Minas
Military Police arrested a 53-year-old man for drug trafficking in Caramuru, Patos de Minas, on 1 November 2026 after finding crack and cannabis at his house. Officers seized R$150, a phone and more cannabis, with a sniffer dog locating additional drugs at his home and a neighbouring house.
🇧🇷 Bairro Caramuru, Patos de Minas, Minas Gerais · Brazil
Military Police officers arrested a 53-year-old man for drug trafficking on the
afternoon of Sunday 1 November in the Caramuru neighbourhood of Patos de Minas.[1][2][3]The man was held in flagrante and taken to the Civil Police station
together with the seized drugs, money and mobile phone.[1][4][2][3]The Military
Police, the uniformed patrol force, said the action followed complaints that a
residence was being used to sell drugs, mainly crack and cannabis, with payment
in cash and by Pix transfers.[1][3]
Officers on patrol received a further tip about possible users moving at the
house and saw the suspect digging a hole by the back wall.[1][4][2][3]When he saw the
officers he fled inside and threw crack stones onto a veranda sofa before being
caught, and officers found two crack stones and a portion of cannabis on the
spot.[1][4][3]A personal search seized R$150 in cash and a mobile phone.[1][2][3]A
continued search behind the house found a plastic bag containing crushed
cannabis and another portion wrapped in plastic film.[1][2][3]
A sniffer dog indicated drugs by the first house’s sofa, where officers found
another crack stone, and signalled a backpack in a bedroom of the neighbouring
house, where they found another portion of cannabis.[1][4][3]Two women aged 34 and
32 found in the neighbouring house said they were drug users.[1][4][2][3]
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Patos 1patos1.com.brPTPatos de Minas - Homem de 53 anos é preso por tráfico de drogas no bairro Caramuru
PatosJápatosja.com.brPTHomem tenta esconder crack em sofá e é preso por tráfico de drogas em Patos de Minas
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No weight was published for the cannabis portions, so no cannabis quantity can be recorded and crack amounts are excluded from cannabis figures.
No court outcome beyond the flagrante transfer to the Civil Police station was reported.
Only one accessible source for this event was found after searching in Portuguese.
The new source gives only Sunday 1 November without a time of day, so the afternoon timing rests on the earlier source.
This account gives no separate date for the raid; 3 November 2026 is its publication date, so the 1 November incident date continues to rest on the earlier reporting.
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