Guards of the Guarda Civil Municipal (GCM) de Santos, the municipal guard force, seized 369 drug portions during a preventive patrol in the Aparecida neighbourhood on the morning of Thursday 5 November 2026.[1] The action was carried out by the Romu Oswaldo Justo team, the municipal guard’s ostensive patrol unit, on Avenida Almirante Ernesto de Mello Júnior.[1] The incident began around 10h30 near the Praça do Conjunto BNH, where the guards saw a man riding a bicycle who sped up and fled when he noticed the patrol car.[1]

During the flight the man threw a bag onto the ground; teams searched and swept the stretch, but the suspect was not found.[1] In the bag the Romu guards counted 369 portions ready for sale, of which 92 containers held green herb identical to marijuana.[1] The same bag also held 156 wraps of a yellowish substance similar to crack and 121 plastic pins filled with white powder resembling cocaine, noted only to explain the mixed seizure and excluded from cannabis figures.[1]

All the material collected in the public street was seized and taken to the 3º Distrito Policial (DP) de Santos, the city’s 3rd police district.[1]