A 41-year-old lawyer was arrested on 13 November 2026 after video cameras at the Complexo Penitenciário de Rio Branco caught him handing drugs to a detainee in Pavilion B.[1] The prison authority said the lawyer was caught at the moment of handing the drug to the inmate serving a sentence in Pavilion B.[1] The account names the facility as the Dr. Francisco de Oliveira Conde prison complex (FOC) and identifies the lawyer only by the initials A.P.L.[2]
Penal police officers on duty grew suspicious of an umbrella the lawyer was carrying, suspecting it was being used to hide the drug handover.[1] Iapen said the lawyer had already been monitored by the Penal Police, after which officers stopped him and carried out a personal search.[1] During the search they found 103 grams of a substance resembling marijuana wrapped in plastic.[1] The second account confirms the weight of the seized drug as 103 grams.[2]
The lawyer was taken to a reserved room where other lawyers were present, given a formal arrest and taken to the Central Delegacia de Flagrantes (Defla) in Rio Branco.[1] The Acre section of the Brazilian Bar Association said it was called in from the start to oversee the lawyer’s rights and would pursue possible ethical-disciplinary measures against him.[1] The Penal Police said the action reinforced its commitment to fighting drug trafficking inside the state’s prison units.[2]
