Man arrested with two pistols, 69 rounds and cannabis in Patos de Minas
Military Police arrested a 27-year-old after tracing a report of an armed motorcyclist to a flat in Lagoa Grande, Patos de Minas, where they found two pistols, 69 rounds and two bars of cannabis. He was taken to the Civil Police station on firearms, receiving-stolen-property and drug-trafficking counts; no cannabis weight was published.
🇧🇷 Bairro Lagoa Grande, Patos de Minas, Minas Gerais · Brazil
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Military Police officers arrested a 27-year-old man in the afternoon of Saturday
7 November 2026 in the Lagoa Grande neighbourhood of Patos de Minas, Minas
Gerais, on suspicion of illegal firearm possession and drug trafficking.[1]The operation began after an anonymous call to the 190 hotline reported an armed
man riding a white Honda Biz motorcycle near the bus terminal.[2]
A 31-year-old woman in the flat said she had not been a victim of domestic
violence and allowed the officers to enter and search the apartment.[2]In a
wardrobe officers found a .380 pistol loaded with four rounds, and in a wooden
box on the television rack a 9 mm pistol with two magazines.[2]With the help
of a police sniffer dog, the team found two bars of cannabis hidden in a room
off the garage.[2]One of the pistols, the .380, had been reported stolen in
the state of Goiás.[1]The man, who police said has previous records for drug
trafficking and illegal firearm possession, took ownership of all the material
seized.[2]
The man was arrested in the act for illegal possession and carrying of firearms
of permitted and restricted use, receiving stolen property for the gun taken in
theft, and drug trafficking.[1]He was taken with the seized material to the
Civil Police duty station in Patos de Minas.[2]
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Lead photo published with the Patos Agora report of the Lagoa Grande arrest and seizure. Photo: Patos AgoraPhoto details
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No weight was published for the two cannabis bars, so no cannabis kilogram figure is recorded.
The cannabis is described as cannabis and as a substance similar to cannabis, with no laboratory confirmation reported.
The Patos Agora lead photo has no caption stating what it shows, so it is cited as the page image without confirming what it depicts.
No charge, custody decision or court outcome after the arrest in the act was reported.
The man's name was not published.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Sputnik Voz do Povo: Officers traced the motorcycle to an address in Lagoa Grande, where a passer-by told them a woman had been heard screaming and calling for help inside one of the flats.
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