A joint Civil and Military Police anti-trafficking operation seized crack, marijuana and hashish on Tuesday 3 November in Tapejara in northwest Paraná.[1][2] The operation targeted a house in the town centre suspected of serving as a drug-selling point.[3][2] Investigators of the 17th Regional Police Station of Cruzeiro do Oeste carried out the action with support from the 7th Military Police Battalion after monitoring the address following trafficking complaints.[3] During surveillance officers stopped a man seen leaving the house and found a 0.70-gram portion of crack with him.[3][2] Teams then entered the investigated residence and found the 24-year-old suspect with two adolescents.[1][2] The operation ended with the arrest of the 24-year-old, the apprehension of an adolescent and the referral of the man stopped outside.[3]

Inside the house police seized 11.17 grams of marijuana and 0.31 gram of hashish, alongside 1.89 grams of crack, R$474 in broken-down cash and a mobile phone.[3] Officers said the 1.89 grams of crack were in the adult suspect’s shorts pocket.[1] At an adolescent’s home officers found another 64 crack stones totalling 32 grams, described as packed for sale, plus a roll of aluminium foil and two knives with drug-preparation traces.[3][2] A search of another adolescent’s home found no illicit material and that teenager was handed over to family.[1]

The 24-year-old was booked in the act for drug trafficking, criminal association and corruption of minors, with no bail set and a request for preventive detention.[3][2] After the procedures he was taken to the Umuarama public jail to remain at the disposal of the courts.[3] An adolescent received a circumstantial report for acts analogous to trafficking and criminal association and was released to guardians after referral to the Public Prosecution Service.[3][2] The man stopped outside signed a circumstantial statement for possession for personal use, and the other adolescent approached was released after a home search without irregularities.[3]