On the night of Tuesday 10 November 2026, a Federal Highway Police team seized a load of about 170 kg of skunk at kilometre 211 of the BR-364 in Rondonópolis, Mato Grosso.[1][2][3][4] The drug was hidden inside an ice cream machine being carried in a box truck.[1][2][3][4] The stop came at about 21:30 during a routine check, when officers halted a yellow Mercedes-Benz truck with only the driver in the cab.[1] The driver said he was hauling household moves and parcels from Rio Branco, in Acre, and from Porto Velho, in Rondônia, for delivery to several destinations.[1][2] Rondonópolis, where the truck was stopped, is about 218 km from Cuiabá.[5][4]

During the inspection a sniffer dog indicated that drugs might be in the cargo compartment, and specifically in the ice cream machine.[1][2][4] After the officers removed the machine and took it apart, they found 162 tablets of a substance similar to skunk, weighing about 170 kg.[5][2][4] Police said the papers the driver showed indicated that the machine had been sent from Porto Velho to Aparecida de Goiânia, in Goiás.[5][2][3][4]

The driver presented the transport documents to the officers.[1][3][4] The case, together with the seized drug, was sent to the Federal Police in Rondonópolis, which was left to carry out the legal steps.[1][3][4] The Federal Police in Rondonópolis was to continue the investigation in order to identify the senders and recipients of the load.[3] The driver was arrested and sent on with the seized drug for the legal steps.[2]