Military police arrested a monitored apenado, a person serving a criminal sentence, in the late afternoon of Sunday 1 November 2026 on Rua Raquel de Queiroz in the Nova Esperança neighbourhood in the north zone of Porto Velho.[1] A Força Tática team of the 1st Battalion under Sergeant Shokness went to the address after receiving denunciations that a man was selling drugs there.[1] When the officers approached, the suspect ran and jumped over the walls of neighbouring houses to evade detention.[2] The officers set up a perimeter cordon, intercepted and detained the apenado.[2]

During the search officers seized several drug portions including maconha, the Portuguese word for cannabis, alongside cocaine and ecstasy.[2] The second outlet described the haul as portions of maconha, cocaine, crack and synthetic drugs, plus objects of doubtful provenance.[1] PVH Notícias presented the location as a boca de fumo, an open-air drug-selling point, and its headline put the total haul at more than 100 drug portions.[1]

Police treated the case as trafficking and took the detainee with the seized material to the Civil Police flagrante department.[2]