62-year-old held with 10 g of cannabis at São Sebastião ferry
Municipal guards detained a 62-year-old tourist at the São Sebastião–Ilhabela ferry boarding area after he was found smoking marijuana. Officers seized about 10 grams of marijuana from his backpack, and he was booked for drug trafficking and held for the courts.
Municipal guards detained a 62-year-old tourist from Minas Gerais in the São
Sebastião–Ilhabela ferry boarding area on 29 October 2026.[1]The Guarda Civil
Municipal (GCM), São Sebastião’s municipal guard force, had been sent by the
Centro de Operações Integradas (COI), the integrated operations centre, after a
report of disorderly conduct and drug use in the boarding area.[1]During the
stop the man admitted he had been smoking marijuana and said he had used drugs
for about 40 years.[1]Officers took him to the São Sebastião police station,
handcuffing him after he resisted arrest.[1]His mobile phone was seized for
examination and he remained in custody at the disposal of the courts.[1]
Officers searching his backpack found one portion of marijuana weighing about 10
grams, the cannabis amount recorded here.[1]The same search found 24 pinos,
small tubes, containing cocaine weighing about 21 grams, noted only to explain
the mixed seizure and excluded from cannabis figures.[1]A second account says
officers at the ferry crossing stopped a 62-year-old man and found 24 cocaine
pinos and one marijuana portion on him.[2]That account says the suspect
reported travelling from Minas Gerais toward Ilhabela.[2]
The man told police he was visiting São Paulo, planned to continue to Ilhabela,
had bought the drugs in the state capital for personal use during the trip and
denied selling drugs.[1]Officers nonetheless booked him in flagrante for drug
trafficking, citing the quantity and packaging of the drugs.[1]
Photos and video
Seized drugs laid out after the tourist arrest at Ilhabela. Photo: Divulgação/PMPhoto details
The first article calls 29 a Wednesday, while the second source dates the roundup to Wednesday 28/10 and Thursday 29/10, so the ferry arrest falls on 28 or 29 October and 29 October is used as the incident date.
The second source does not assign each of its two detentions to a specific day or time.
The approximately 10-gram marijuana weight is an approximate reported figure, not a laboratory weight.
Cocaine quantities of about 21 grams in 24 pinos are excluded from cannabis figures under the mixed-event scope rule.
The separate Rua do Outeiro seizure of crack, marijuana and cash reported in the same roundup is a different event left out here.
No full name, charge sheet, forensic result or court outcome beyond custody at the disposal of the courts was reported.
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 in Itapetininga arrested a man in flagrante on 10 November 2026 during Operação Black Hat, an investigation into drugs advertised on social networks and delivered by delivery. Officers serving a search warrant seized portions of dry and marijuana flower, 10 ecstasy tablets and R$7,600 in cash, with a scale, two phones and a motorcycle.
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.
