Six people were arrested in Campo Grande — including Cícero Nazário da Silva, whom the police had earlier identified as the leader of a drug trafficking group — and one more, Estella Taynara Tomasi, a 32-year-old, was arrested in Dourados.[1] Cícero had been among those targeted in an earlier phase of Operação Destroyer, the 21st phase of which, named Rota Verde, was launched on 11 November.[1] The suspects were held under 30-day temporary arrest warrants.[2]

Police said the group moved about 7.2 million reais in interstate cannabis trafficking, using rented vehicles on at least 20 trips, of which nine loads were intercepted and about one tonne of cannabis seized.[1] This phase issued 22 temporary arrest warrants and 25 search warrants across five states, and the court ordered the freezing of about 4.2 million reais of the suspects’ assets.[1] The cannabis was sent to at least seven cities in Goiás state: Trindade, Goiânia, Anápolis, Rio Verde, Quirinópolis, Nova Crixás and the city of Goiás.[1] The investigation began in February 2024 after 70 kilograms of cannabis were found on a couple in Trindade.[1]

One of the people under investigation died in a confrontation with the Civil Police of the Federal District during a drug delivery, and four others remain at large.[2]