Two 19-year-olds arrested in Operation Smurfs in Poços de Caldas
Minas Gerais Civil Police arrested two 19-year-old men in flagrante during Operation Smurfs in Poços de Caldas on 5 November 2026, after taking four people from two searched homes. Officers seized tablets and portions resembling marijuana, crack and hashish, including 172 packaged crack stones, plus a .40 pistol, magazines, phones, cash and a vehicle.
🇧🇷 Conjunto Habitacional, Zona Sul, Poços de Caldas, Minas Gerais · Brazil
Minas Gerais Civil Police carried out Operation Smurfs against drug trafficking
in Poços de Caldas on 5 November 2026.[1]The operation executed two
search-and-seizure warrants in the Conjunto Habitacional area in the city’s
South Zone.[2]Four people were taken to the police station, with two
adolescents handed to their mother and two 19-year-old men booked in flagrante.[3]
Searches seized tablets and portions of substances resembling marijuana, crack
and hashish, including 172 crack stones already packaged for sale.[1]Officers
also found a .40-calibre pistol, three magazines, ammunition, eight mobile
phones, drug-packaging material, cash and a vehicle.[2]A television set was
also seized so investigators could check its origin.[1]
Police said the seized materials corroborated earlier findings that one of the
inspected homes was used as a drug depot.[3]Investigations are continuing to
clarify the involvement of those taken in and the origin of the seized
materials.[2]
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Open questions the AI reported
No cannabis-only weight was published for the tablets and portions resembling marijuana and hashish, so no kilogram figure is recorded.
The 172 packaged stones are reported as crack and cash, phones, packaging, a pistol, a vehicle and a television are non-cannabis items excluded from cannabis figures.
The two arrested men, aged 19, were not named and no charge sheet or court outcome was reported; investigations were continuing.
Military police arrested a 27-year-old man from Pernambuco on a vacant lot in Tapera, Florianópolis, after a sniffer dog found packages similar to marijuana and hashish. Officers also seized cocaine portions and 189 reais; the force published no weights.
Highway military police arrested a 20-year-old driver on 11 November 2026 with 400.8 kilograms of marijuana in an Argo on SP-613 at kilometre 75.5 in Rosana, São Paulo. They valued the seizure at 1.2 million reais and took him to the Federal Police in Presidente Prudente, where he remained in custody.
Military police arrested seven suspected drug traffickers in the Água Branca neighbourhood of Contagem and seized 218 kg of cannabis. The suspects, all with prior criminal records, were taken to the Contagem Civil Police station for investigation.
Military Police arrested an 18-year-old man in Jardim São Jorge, Paranavaí, on the night of 10 November 2026, seizing one cannabis plant alongside 110 portions of crack and 27 of cocaine. He was taken to the police station on suspicion of trafficking; no name, charge or court outcome was reported.
