Man, 34, arrested with 2 cannabis bars and 20 buchas in Piraúba
Military police arrested a 34-year-old man on suspicion of drug trafficking in Piraúba, Minas Gerais, on the night of 10 November 2026, seizing two bars and 20 buchas of a marijuana-like substance along with cocaine-like material, scales and packaging. The operation began with an anonymous tip in the bairro Santa Terezinha and used a sniffer dog from the ROCCA dog unit.
🇧🇷 Rua Pedro Vieira da Silva, bairro Santa Terezinha, Piraúba, Minas Gerais · Brazil
Military police arrested a 34-year-old man on suspicion of drug trafficking on
the night of Tuesday 10 November 2026 in Piraúba, in the Zona da Mata of Minas
Gerais.[1]The incident was recorded at about 21h on Rua Pedro Vieira da
Silva, in the bairro Santa Terezinha neighbourhood.[1]
The operation began after an anonymous tip about suspicious activity, and
officers kept watch on a property from which they saw the suspect leave carrying
a bag and walk towards an abandoned house.[2]When officers stopped the man in
the street he no longer had the bag, and a search of the route he had taken
found it hidden under a staircase, holding one bar of a marijuana-like substance
and a package of cocaine-like powder.[1]A search of the property the suspect
had left found two precision scales, empty vials, plastic packaging and another
portion of a cocaine-like substance.[2]
Searches extended to the ground in front of the house and the surrounding area,
partly with a lawyer present, and the operation was supported by Military Police
teams from Tocantins and by the Ronda Ostensiva com Cães (ROCCA), the military
police dog unit.[1]A sniffer dog helped locate further material in the
outside area, named Ogum in the regional reports and Ogun by Primeiro a Saber.[3]
In total officers seized two bars and 20 buchas of a substance resembling
marijuana, five packages and two vials of a cocaine-like substance, two
precision scales, a mobile phone and various packaging materials.[1]After the
arrest the man was taken to the municipal hospital in Piraúba for a medical
assessment and then presented to the on-duty Civil Police station in Ubá, where
he remained at the disposal of the courts together with the seized material.[2]The case was passed to the Civil Police for the appropriate legal steps.[1]The regional account of the operation was credited to the 21st Military
Police Battalion.[2]
Photos and video
Police photo of the drugs and packaging material seized in the Piraúba operation, laid out over a Polícia Militar de Minas Gerais banner. Photo: PMMGPhoto details
No weight was published for the two bars, the 20 buchas or the cocaine-like material, so no cannabis kilograms are recorded.
The substances are described only as resembling marijuana and cocaine, and no laboratory confirmation was reported.
The man's name was not published, and no charge beyond the arrest in flagrante, custody decision or court outcome was reported.
The accounts do not say how the seized items were divided between the bag under the staircase, the property and the ground in front of it.
The reports say the operation had support from Military Police teams from Tocantins, which may mean the neighbouring municipality of Tocantins, Minas Gerais, rather than the state of Tocantins.
The sniffer dog is named Ogun in one account and Ogum in the others.
The outlets appear to reproduce the same Military Police statement, so the reporting is not independent.
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