A joint operation by the Paraná Military Police 19th Battalion and the Federal Highway Police seized more than three tonnes of drugs and arrested four people on Friday 13 November 2026 in Toledo in western Paraná.[1][2] SOT placed the operation in the early hours of Friday in the Concórdia district of Toledo, where four men were arrested with a stolen pickup.[3] The action began at about 3 a.m. during inspections of accesses to the BR-163 highway and rural roads, when officers spotted a pickup travelling without plates and followed it with military police support.[3] The driver disobeyed the stop order, fled to a rural property and abandoned the Hilux inside a shed, where officers detained the driver and three other men at the site.[1] Officers following the pickup reached the rural property, where two men were caught unloading bales of marijuana near the shed.[3] Following the vehicle with military police support, the officers reached a rural property, where two men were caught unloading bales of marijuana near a shed.[2]
Searches of the pickup and the shed found bales totalling 3,162.9 kg of marijuana and 9.9 kg of murruga, or 3,172.8 kg of drugs removed from circulation.[1] Checks showed the plate on the Toyota Hilux did not match the vehicle’s identification data and that the pickup had a theft record.[1] Police found the pickup used to carry the drug had been reported stolen since 28 August 2026 in Medianeira, also in western Paraná.[3][2] The four detained men, the recovered pickup and all the seized drugs were taken to Toledo’s 20th Police Subdivision, where the case was handed to the Civil Police.[1][2] Police said an inquiry would be opened to investigate the load’s origin, its destination and possible links to other criminal groups.[4]
