The Tático Móvel unit of the Military Police arrested a 35-year-old man in flagrante at a sítio, a rural smallholding, in the rural zone of São João del-Rei during an operation on Friday 30 October 2026.[1][2] The team acted after information-gathering and monitoring identified a structure used for producing and processing narcotic substances including marijuana, cocaine and crack.[3] The man was taken to the on-duty Civil Police station, where the occurrence was closed.[1]

During the search officers seized 18 and a half bars of a marijuana-like substance, plus five portions of varying sizes.[1][2] In the same search they found cocaine-like material described as a salt-packet-sized packet, two bars and three portions, and two crack-like bars described as rapadura-sized.[1] Police also seized an industrial hydraulic press, two precision scales, a commercial scale, varied production inputs and preparation utensils including a stove, pan, spoon and knife.[1]

Officers seized three firearms: a Bayard Piper model 1908 pistol in 6 mm/M35, a 12-gauge shotgun and a .32-calibre revolver.[1] They also collected 43 intact cartridges, comprising 12 of calibre 12, six of calibre 32 and 25 of calibre 22.[3] Police additionally seized a Xiaomi Redmi mobile phone, a motorcycle and a cheque leaf for R$1,450 at the site.[1]