Military police officers from the RAIO battalion arrested a man suspected of drug trafficking and involvement with a criminal organisation in the Residencial Maria Tereza neighbourhood of Rondonópolis, Mato Grosso, on the night of Friday 6 November 2026.[1] The arrest was made by a team of the RAIO battalion of the 14th Independent Military Police Company during Operation Tolerância Zero às Facções Criminosas, a state campaign against criminal factions.[1]

Officers were on motorcycle patrol in the area when residents reported a house with frequent movement of drug users and a man selling drugs there.[1] The man was at the gate of the house and threw a package on the ground before running to the back of the property, where officers caught him.[1] He was wearing an electronic ankle monitor and, according to the Military Police, had several previous police records for drug trafficking.[1]

Officers found a piece of marijuana-like substance on the kitchen sink next to a precision scale, and the drugs seized weighed about 915 grams in total.[1] The suspect was arrested and taken with the seized material to the 1st Civil Police Station, and officers asked for the seized mobile phone to be examined.[1] A second account put the two portions of marijuana at about one kilogram and reported that the suspect was already under electronic monitoring for the same drug-trafficking offence, which police treated as reoffending.[2] The suspect had already been given an ankle monitor for the same drug-trafficking offence, which police described as reoffending.[2]