Two men were arrested for drug trafficking in Sorocaba, São Paulo state, on Tuesday 3 November 2026 after they fled an approach by officers of the 14th Batalhão de Ações Especiais de Polícia (Baep), the São Paulo military police’s special-actions battalion.[1] The military police said they had received information that a VW Fox car was circulating in the area with a large quantity of drugs, and the team stepped up patrols in the Rua Serafim Banietti area until it found a matching car.[2] The driver fled when the patrol car approached, and the car was stopped on Alameda do Horto.[1] One occupant jumped the wall of a plot before he was detained, and the second man was caught soon afterwards.[1]

In the boot officers found drug portions, and one of the men confessed the drugs were his and said he used hidden compartments in the car, opened by special mechanisms, to carry them.[1] He also said more drugs were at his home and that the material was taken to a barracão, a large shed, on Avenida Itavuvu.[2] Officers went to the shed, where the owner confirmed the man was her tenant and let them in, but nothing illegal was found there.[1] At the suspect’s house the officers found more drugs and the materials used to prepare and sell them.[1]

The cannabis component was 562 portions of marijuana and two marijuana tablets weighing 3.504 kg.[2] The same tally listed 1,954 cocaine tubes weighing 2.095 kg, 3,468 crack portions weighing 4.5 kg, 966 portions of ice and one tablet weighing 695 g, 726 g of fentanyl citrate and 322 g of cocaine mixture.[2] Police counted the whole seizure at 11.842 kg of drugs, a combined total across substances that is not counted as cannabis weight here.[1] They also seized two precision scales, 1,000 cocaine storage tubes, three mobile phones, the car and R$900 in cash.[1]

Both men were taken to the on-duty police station, where the incident was recorded and they remained at the disposal of the courts.[2] Baep stands for Batalhão de Ações Especiais de Polícia, the São Paulo military police’s special-operations battalion.[1]