Fugitive, 24, arrested near Santa Cruz do Sul pre-school with marijuana
Guarda Municipal officers arrested a 24-year-old man wanted by the 2ª Vara Criminal in Santa Cruz do Sul on the morning of 5 November 2026 after a school video surveillance system identified him near an Emei. A search found a small portion of marijuana in a cigarette packet, and he was taken to the regional prison.
🇧🇷 Rua Lindolfo Grawunder, Bairro Belvedere, Santa Cruz do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul · Brazil
Guarda Municipal officers in Santa Cruz do Sul arrested a 24-year-old man on the
morning of Thursday, 5 November 2026.[1]The 2ª Vara Criminal court in Santa
Cruz do Sul had issued an open arrest warrant for him over drug trafficking and
illegal gun possession.[2]
The city’s video surveillance system identified him at the Raio de Sol municipal
early-childhood school (Emei), an Emei being a municipal pre-school centre, on
Rua Lindolfo Grawunder in the Belvedere neighbourhood.[1]The information was
passed to a Guarda Municipal patrol, which went to the scene and stopped him
near the school, confirming the warrant.[2]
A search found a portion of marijuana packed inside a cigarette packet.[1]Officers took him to the Central UPA for a medical check and then presented him
at the DPPA, the ready-response police station, before he was taken to the Santa
Cruz do Sul regional prison.[1]
The Guarda Municipal said the case showed the value of combining video
surveillance with patrol work to identify people with court orders outstanding.[2]
Case data
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Highway military police arrested a 20-year-old driver on 11 November 2026 with 400.8 kilograms of marijuana in an Argo on SP-613 at kilometre 75.5 in Rosana, São Paulo. They valued the seizure at 1.2 million reais and took him to the Federal Police in Presidente Prudente, where he remained in custody.
Military police arrested seven suspected drug traffickers in the Água Branca neighbourhood of Contagem and seized 218 kg of cannabis. The suspects, all with prior criminal records, were taken to the Contagem Civil Police station for investigation.
Civil Police arrested three men from Amazonas in a house in Cinturão Verde, Boa Vista, on 10 November 2026 with 201.5 kg of cannabis derivatives, including hashish and cannabis oil. Police valued the load at R$15 million and said it was meant for Rio de Janeiro; the men were booked for trafficking.
Military Police arrested a 36-year-old man, a 30-year-old woman and a 39-year-old buyer during a raid on a suspected drug point in Ponte Nova, Minas Gerais, on 10 November 2026. Officers seized two cannabis tablets alongside crack, cocaine, three phones, bookkeeping notes and R$2,474 in cash, transferring all three to the Civil Police.
