Driver flees, police find 1,361.7 kg of cannabis in stolen Hilux in Toledo
Federal highway police and military police found 1,361.7 kg of cannabis in a stolen Toyota Hilux on the BR-163 in Toledo, western Paraná, on 29 October 2026. The driver abandoned the pickup in a crop field and ran into woodland; he was not found and no arrests were reported.
🇧🇷 BR-163, Toledo, Paraná · Brazil
- Cannabis
- 1.3617 t
The driver of the Toyota Hilux refused an order to stop and fled, starting a
pursuit.[1] He abandoned the pickup in a crop field and ran into a wooded
area.[1] Police searched the surroundings but did not find him.[2] No one
had been arrested in connection with the seizure.[3]
Military police reported seeing the Hilux travelling at high speed in heavy rain
on a single-lane stretch of the highway where maintenance work was under way.[1] A federal highway police special operations unit tried to stop it during an
inspection on the road.[3] Officers found bales of cannabis in the abandoned
vehicle.[1] The pickup’s plate did not match its chassis number.[2] Checks
showed the Hilux had been stolen in Corbélia on 4 September 2026.[1] Police
took the cannabis and the recovered Hilux to the 20th Police Subdivision in
Toledo.[1]
Sources
- Polícia Militar apreende mais de 1,3 tonelada de maconha e 8,3 kg de cocaína em Toledo; casal é preso e caminhonete furtada é recuperada. Gazeta de Toledo, 30 October 2026. In Portuguese.
- Hilux carregada com mais de 1,3 tonelada de maconha é abandonada em plantação após fuga da polícia em Toledo. Radar BO, 29 October 2026. In Portuguese.
- PRF apreende 1,3 tonelada de maconha em caminhonete furtada após perseguição na BR-163, em Toledo. O Paraná, 29 October 2026. In Portuguese.
Open questions the AI reported
- The driver remained at large and no one had been arrested when the reports were published.
- The origin and destination of the cannabis were not disclosed.
- The submitted roundup also reports the seizure of 8.3 kg of cocaine and the arrest of a couple at Jardim Santa Clara, a separate event left out here.
- The roundup's featured photo has no caption or credit and could not be tied to this seizure, so no media entry uses it.
- Left out, as its quotation was not found in O Paraná: Federal highway police and military police seized 1,361.7 kg of cannabis on the BR-163 in Toledo, western Paraná, on the morning of 29 October 2026.
- Left out, as its quotation was not found in O Paraná: After weighing, the load came to 1,361.7 kg.
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