A judge in Sidrolândia, Mato Grosso do Sul, convicted C.G.L. of drug trafficking for storing about 1,010 kg of marijuana at a rural property.[1] Judge Bruce Henrique dos Santos Bueno Silva, of the criminal court of the Sidrolândia district, recognised the privileged form of trafficking, reduced the sentence to 2 years and 9 months in prison and allowed the defendant to appeal at liberty.[1] Under Brazil’s drug law, privileged trafficking applies to a first-time defendant with a good record who is not devoted to crime or part of a criminal organisation.[1]

The judge revoked the defendant’s preventive detention and ordered his immediate release unless another reason existed to keep him jailed.[1] The defendant had been held since 19 February 2026, when military police of the Força Tática, a tactical unit, arrested him in the act at lot 601 of the Assentamento Eldorado, a rural settlement.[1] The marijuana had been found in tablets behind a counter and under a tarpaulin in a space attached to the house, next to stored tyres.[1] The defendant told the court he had been offered R$ 1,000 through WhatsApp by a man nicknamed “Sedex” to store the load temporarily, and that R$ 835 found on the property was part of that payment.[1]

The judge set the initial prison regime as semi-open and refused to replace the prison term with restrictions of rights because of the large quantity of marijuana seized.[1] The final penalty was 2 years and 9 months in prison and 166 daily fines, each set at one thirtieth of the minimum wage in force at the time of the facts.[1]

Military police seized 1,010 kg of marijuana in 1,063 tablets stored in the house of a farmstead at the Assentamento Eldorado, in the Capão Seco district.[2] The February operation also found eight bales of smuggled tyres, cash, mobile phones and other materials; one man was arrested in the act and a second suspect was taken as a witness.[2]