Military Police stopped two men with previous records for drug trafficking and theft at a police roadblock in the Araçá neighbourhood of Porto Belo on the night of Friday 30 October.[1] The officers found problems with the car’s paperwork and established that both occupants’ driving licences were suspended.[1] Both men had prior police records and said they had already served a sentence for theft.[1]

A search of the vehicle yielded about 20 grams of maconha along with three mobile phones, two radio communicators, two card machines, two credit cards, a micha-type key and R$21 in cash.[1] The two men admitted that the drug was theirs and described themselves as users.[1] Their explanations of where the other items came from and who they belonged to were judged insufficient.[1]

The seized materials were taken in for the applicable legal procedures, and the vehicle was removed to the contracted impound lot because of the administrative irregularities.[1]