Military police arrested three men, aged 30, 31 and 32, during an operation against drug trafficking in the São Francisco neighbourhood of Pará de Minas in Minas Gerais on the night of Wednesday 4 November 2026.[1] JC Notícias reported the same raid: the Military Police arrested the three men in Pará de Minas on the night of Wednesday 4 November during an operation against drug trafficking.[2] Teams of the Military Police’s Specialised Policing Company, known as GER, went to a house in the neighbourhood after intelligence reported it was being used to sell drugs.[1] Approaching the property, the officers saw a precision scale and a portion of a substance resembling cocaine on the porch.[1] The 30-year-old ran out through the back of the house and was chased and caught, and a check showed an open arrest warrant against him issued by the court of Ribeirão das Neves.[1] Two other men, aged 31 and 32, were found in the house, where officers located more drugs and a loaded .38 revolver with six intact cartridges on the route the younger man had taken to flee.[1]

Police listed the haul as 33 packets and two larger portions of cocaine, a portion of cannabis, a precision scale, two mobile phones, a revolver and six cartridges.[1] JC Notícias reported the cannabis taken separately as “uma bucha de maconha”, a single bud.[2] The 32-year-old is to face a drug-trafficking charge, the 31-year-old was held for association for trafficking, and the 30-year-old was held on the warrant and also for illegal possession of a firearm and association for trafficking.[1] All three were taken with the seized material to the Pará de Minas Civil Police station.[1]