73 marijuana tablets seized in delivery bag in Teresina
Military police in Teresina seized 73 tablets of marijuana and a motorcycle from a delivery bag in the Buenos Aires neighbourhood on 12 November 2026 after a motorcyclist suspected of distributing the drugs abandoned the bag and escaped. Police put the load at about 80 kilograms and sent it to the state narcotics repression department, Denarc.
Military police in Teresina seized 73 tablets of marijuana and a motorcycle from
a delivery bag in the Buenos Aires neighbourhood on the morning of Thursday 12
November 2026.[1]The motorcyclist suspected of carrying the drugs escaped
during a police chase.[1]
Officers on visible patrol noticed a motorcyclist behaving suspiciously and
began following him.[1]As he fled, the man turned into an alleyway, abandoned
a bag containing the drugs and got away.[1]
The Secretaria de Segurança Pública do Piauí said the load corresponded to about
80 kilograms of drugs.[2]
The commander of the 9th Military Police Battalion, Major Tales, said the
tablets and other drugs had been found in the bag of a man who would have been
distributing them.[3]The motorcyclist had not been located when the reports
were published.[4]Police suspect the material was to supply drug distribution
in the area, and the investigation will establish where the drugs came from.[4]
All the seized material, including the drugs and the motorcycle, was taken to
the Departamento Estadual de Repressão ao Narcotráfico (Denarc), the state
narcotics repression department.[1]
Despite searches of the area, the man managed to escape.[5]
Police valued the drugs at about R$39,000, and the 73 tablets together with
other drugs weighed about 80 kilograms.[6]
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The 80-kilogram total given by the Secretaria de Segurança Pública covers the 73 marijuana tablets together with other drugs, so the weight of the cannabis alone cannot be separated from the accounts.
The tablets were described by police as a substance analogous to marijuana rather than confirmed cannabis, and no laboratory result was reported.
No one was arrested: the motorcyclist abandoned the bag and escaped and had not been located when the reports were published.
No charge, court date or court outcome was reported; the material was sent to Denarc for the investigation.
The reports give no street value for the marijuana tablets themselves, only a figure for the whole load of drugs.
Only the exact time of the morning of 12 November is given, so the seizure is dated to that day.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Viagora: The seizure was made by teams from the 9th, 22nd and 1st Military Police Battalions during Operation Metraton.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Portal Clube News: The suspect left behind the bag used to carry the tablets and the motorcycle, escaping on foot before officers could reach him.
Left out agencies, as its quotation was not found in Viagora.
Left out agency types, as its quotation was not found in Viagora.
Santa Catarina's BOPE special operations battalion seized about 420 kg of a substance resembling marijuana from an uninhabited house used as a drug depot in Guarda do Cubatão, Palhoça, in the early hours of 11 November 2026 after a neighbours' tip. Officers saw the tablets through a window; the load went to the Civil Police station and no arrests were announced.
Federal Highway Police arrested a 44-year-old truck driver in the early hours of 11 November 2026 after finding more than half a tonne of skunk, about 591 packages, in a false bottom of his truck's cargo body at km 319 of the BR-070 in Jussara, Goiás. The load had left Cacoal, Rondônia, bound for Goiânia, and the driver was to be paid R$10,000.
Paraná's Border Police Battalion and federal agencies seized 7,781 kg of marijuana and skunk hidden in a maize load on a bitrem truck stopped on BR-163 near Marechal Cândido Rondon, and arrested a 30-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman. The operation, part of Operação Protetor, ran from 10 to 11 November 2026, and the battalion put the loss to organised crime at R$16,318,000.
On 11 November 2026 the Civil Police in Apucarana incinerated 6.8 tonnes of marijuana seized by the Federal Highway Police in September. That load made up most of the 10.3 tonnes seized in the Apucarana region from January to September 2026, up from 4.9 tonnes a year earlier.
