Military police apprehended a 17-year-old with cannabis on the night of Saturday 31 October at the Ponta Grossa bus terminal.[1][2][3] A Choque team acted on information from the Força Integrada de Combate ao Crime Organizado that a passenger who had boarded in Cuiabá was carrying drugs.[1][3] Officers stopped the bus at the terminal at about 11:08 p.m. with support from other teams.[1] The teenager appeared nervous during the inspection and, although officers found nothing illicit on him, he spontaneously said he was carrying the maconha in suitcases.[1] He told police he would receive R$8,000 to take the drugs to Curitiba, and officers also found a damaged cell phone with him.[1] He was placed under apprehension and taken with the drugs to the flagrante police unit, while a tutelary counselor accompanied the procedures because the Curitiba resident had no legal representative in Ponta Grossa.[1]

Officers found 32 kilograms of maconha divided between two suitcases in the luggage compartment of a bus travelling from Porto Velho to Criciúma.[1][2][3] Police recovered multiple vacuum-packed packages of a substance analogous to maconha from the vehicle’s luggage compartment, which totalled 32 kilograms after weighing.[4][2]

The stop was carried out by the Choque platoon of the 1st Military Police Battalion with support from area officers and the unit’s policing coordinator.[4] The teenager was forwarded to the competent police authority with the drugs and a cell phone, with the Tutelary Council accompanying the procedures.[4]

Federal Police teams joined Paraná Military Police Choque teams in stopping the bus after FICCO/PR information.[3]