A Patrulhamento Tatico Movel team from the 30th Military Police Battalion was patrolling Rua Manoel Carreiro de Melo in Pimentel.[1] The team spotted a group of people who fled when they noticed the approaching patrol vehicle.[1] Officers searched the surroundings and found narcotics hidden at different points of an alleyway.[1] No suspect was located or arrested.[1]

Officers seized 420 grams of maconha.[1] The same seizure included 240 grams of cocaine and 68 grams of crack.[1] Police put the combined total at 728 grams of narcotics.[1] The material was taken to the 110th Civil Police station, where the incident was registered.[1]

Pimentel is one of the communities in the upper part of the populous Sao Pedro neighbourhood.[1] The incident occurred late on Saturday night.[1] The action was part of the 30th Battalion’s daily confrontation with the local drug-trafficking movement.[1]