Military Police on motor patrol in Rio Verde de Mato Grosso arrested two men aged 23 and 29 on 31 October 2026, finding 100 g of maconha on a motorcycle and 555 g more at a house in Jardim dos Estados. Officers seized 655 g of maconha plus a precision scale, a Honda Biz and a phone, and handed both men to the Civil Police station in flagrante.
🇧🇷 Jardim dos Estados, Rio Verde de Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul · Brazil
Two men, aged 23 and 29, were arrested for drug trafficking on the afternoon of
Saturday 31 October 2026 in Rio Verde de Mato Grosso.[1]A Military Police
motor-patrol team made the arrests during ostensive, preventive patrolling
through the Jardim dos Estados neighbourhood.[1]Officers spotted a man
leaving a residence on a Honda Biz motorcycle.[1]He appeared nervous when he
noticed the police team approaching.[1]
A search of the motorcycle turned up 100 grams of a substance described as
analogous to maconha, divided into ten portions.[1]When asked where the drug
had come from, the man told officers he had picked it up at another person’s
residence.[1]Police searched the indicated house and found a further 555
grams of maconha-like substance pressed in tablet form, along with a precision
scale.[1]Altogether, police seized655 grams of maconha, one precision scale,
the Honda Biz motorcycle and one cell phone.[1]
Both men were arrested in flagrante and taken with the seized materials to the
Civil Police station for the applicable legal steps.[1]
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Police handout photo accompanying the report on the 655 g seizure in Jardim dos Estados. Credit: Policia Militar disclosure via IdestPhoto details
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No second report of this event was found, so the account rests on a single outlet report.
The two men are identified only by their ages of 23 and 29 and their names were not published.
No court outcome beyond the flagrante arrests and referral to the Civil Police station was reported.
Laboratory confirmation of the seized substance as cannabis was not reported, since officers described it at seizure as a substance analogous to maconha.
Whether the police handout photo shows this seizure's materials could not be established from its caption.
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