Two men held as 263 kg of cannabis seized in São José
Santa Catarina Civil Police arrested two men and seized about 263 kilograms of marijuana in 317 tablets in the Praia Comprida neighbourhood of São José on 6 November 2026, along with about 1 kg of hashish and 284 grams of cocaine. Police first reported more than 300 kg and revised the figure after weighing.
🇧🇷 Praia Comprida, São José, Santa Catarina · Brazil
Civil Police officers of Santa Catarina arrested two men in flagrante on Friday
6 November 2026 in the Praia Comprida neighbourhood of São José, in Greater
Florianópolis, in an operation by the city’s anti-drug unit, the Delegacia de
Combate às Drogas (DECOD).[1][2]After inquiries the officers located the two
suspects and stopped them, and searches found drugs inside a vehicle and in a
residence.[3][2][4][5]
The marijuana seized came to about 263 kilograms, divided into 317 tablets.[3][6][2][4][5][7]During a press conference the Civil Police had first reported more than 300
kilograms, and the figure was revised after the final count and weighing.[3]
Officers also seized about 1 kilogram of hashish, 284 grams of cocaine, two
mobile phones, two precision scales, a knife with drug residue, rolls of plastic
film used to pack drugs and a car.[8][2][4]
The two men were taken to the DECOD station in São José, where the arrest in
flagrante was recorded.[1][2][4][5][7]The seizure came four days after another Civil
Police operation in the Potecas neighbourhood of the same municipality, where
472 kilograms of marijuana were found at a residence and an 18-year-old was
arrested.[3][6]Together the two operations took the Civil Police’s marijuana
seizures in São José in four days to 735 kilograms, police said.[3][6]
Police seized rolls of plastic film used to pack drugs and a knife with drug residue in the same operation.[5]
Photos and video
Brick-shaped marijuana packages laid out during the Praia Comprida seizure in São José. Photo: Divulgação/Polícia Civil de Santa CatarinaPhoto details
No names or ages of the two arrested men were published.
No street value was given for the marijuana or the hashish.
No charge beyond arrest in flagrante, and no court outcome, was reported.
The reports do not say how much of the drug was found in the vehicle and how much in the residence, or where in Praia Comprida the searches took place.
The combined four-day figure of 735 kg includes the separate 472 kg Potecas seizure and is not counted as cannabis seized in this event.
The cocaine and the knife are part of the same case but are not counted as cannabis.
Left out activity, as its quotation was not found in Agora Floripa.
NoPontoSC says only the municipality of São José and does not name the Praia Comprida neighbourhood where the searches took place.
NoPontoSC does not report the initial figure of more than 300 kg that the Civil Police later revised to about 263 kg.
The page does not name the neighbourhood, so it does not independently confirm Praia Comprida.
It does not report the initial figure of more than 300 kg that the Civil Police later revised to about 263 kg.
The two arrested men are not named and no ages are given.
The page does not say how much of the marijuana was in the vehicle and how much in the residence, or where the residence is.
The cocaine, the knife and the packing material are part of the same case but are not counted as cannabis.
The page gives no names or ages for the two arrested men, and no court outcome beyond the arrest in flagrante.
The page does not say how much of the marijuana was found in the vehicle and how much in the residence.
Santa Catarina's BOPE special operations battalion seized about 420 kg of a substance resembling marijuana from an uninhabited house used as a drug depot in Guarda do Cubatão, Palhoça, in the early hours of 11 November 2026 after a neighbours' tip. Officers saw the tablets through a window; the load went to the Civil Police station and no arrests were announced.
Federal Highway Police arrested a 44-year-old truck driver in the early hours of 11 November 2026 after finding more than half a tonne of skunk, about 591 packages, in a false bottom of his truck's cargo body at km 319 of the BR-070 in Jussara, Goiás. The load had left Cacoal, Rondônia, bound for Goiânia, and the driver was to be paid R$10,000.
Paraná's Border Police Battalion and federal agencies seized 7,781 kg of marijuana and skunk hidden in a maize load on a bitrem truck stopped on BR-163 near Marechal Cândido Rondon, and arrested a 30-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman. The operation, part of Operação Protetor, ran from 10 to 11 November 2026, and the battalion put the loss to organised crime at R$16,318,000.
Federal Highway Police officers seized 245.6 kilograms of marijuana from a white Chevrolet Onix that fled an inspection on the BR-163 in Lindoeste, western Paraná, on the night of 10 November 2026. The 25-year-old driver and a 16-year-old passenger were taken with the car and the drug to the Civil Police station in Cascavel.
