Two women aged 24 and 31 and a 26-year-old man were arrested for drug trafficking in Sapezal on the night of 3 November 2026.[1][2] Police identified the three as members of a criminal faction.[1] The Military Police said they were held with about 100 portions of substances analogous to cocaine and cannabis.[1][3] The case began during a patrol by the cavalry unit in the city centre, where soldiers received complaints of drug sales inside a nightclub.[1]

At the nightclub a woman ran inside when she saw the Military Police, and soldiers followed her to a room where she was caught trying to flush drugs down a toilet.[3] Another part of the material, containing 20 portions of cocaine ready for sale, was seized and the woman was detained.[3] Questioned, she said she had bought the material hours earlier at another woman’s house near a bar.[1]

Officers went to that address and found the other two suspects; the woman swore at the soldiers and tried to block them from entering, while the man ran inside and was caught trying to get rid of a bag of drugs.[3] In searches of the house police found the rest of the cocaine and cannabis portions, cocaine paste rocks, R$300 in cash and materials used in trafficking.[3] The three suspects were taken to the Sapezal police station with the seized material and handed to the Polícia Judiciária Civil, the civilian investigative police, for further steps.[1]

Jornal Oeste reported the case with information from the Mato Grosso Military Police and gave the same account of the arrests and the two addresses.[3]

Folhamax reported that the three were identified as members of Comando Vermelho (CV).[2]