Five held in Varginha drug raid; cannabis bars and buchas seized
Military police arrested five people on suspicion of drug trafficking in Jardim Primavera, Varginha, on 12 November 2026 after a group fled into a residence during a patrol. Officers seized four marijuana bars, 36 wrapped buchas and other portions, plus a scale, phones and R$20.
🇧🇷 Bairro Jardim Primavera, Varginha, Minas Gerais · Brazil
Military police teams from Gepar, a unit of the 24th Military Police Battalion,
arrested five people in flagrante on suspicion of drug trafficking in the Jardim
Primavera neighbourhood of Varginha at about 18:25 on Thursday 12 November 2026.[1]The detention came during a preventive patrol when officers saw a group try
to flee into a residence on the approach of the patrol car.[1]During the
approach, one of the suspects discarded a backpack containing drugs.[1]
Searches at the scene recovered four marijuana bars, additional portions of the
drug and 36 buchas already individually wrapped for sale.[1]The team also
seized a precision scale, mobile phones and R$20 in cash.[1]Those detained
were four men aged 18, 20, 23 and 34 and a 35-year-old woman.[1]After routine
medical care, all five were taken with the seized material to the Varginha Civil
Police station, where the flagrante was formalised.[1]
Case data
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Santa Catarina Civil Police arrested a 20-year-old man and a 36-year-old woman in Chapecó's Eldorado neighbourhood on 13 November 2026 after catching a marijuana-bale transfer between vehicles. Officers seized about 41.2 kg of marijuana and 85 g of hashish alongside cocaine, crack, ecstasy and LSD, plus a car and three phones.
Military police arrested a man for suspected drug trafficking at a commercial establishment in Santa Lucia, Maceio, seizing 105 grams of marijuana plus a scale, a phone, cash and Rohypnol. He admitted the items were his and was charged with drug trafficking at the Central de Flagrantes.
Guarda Municipal officers arrested a 22-year-old man in Parque Residencial Jundiaí, Jundiaí, after a foot chase and seized 296 grams of marijuana in 46 portions. The flagrante arrest for drug trafficking was confirmed and he was sent to Campo Limpo Paulista to await a custody hearing.
A woman suspected of giving cannabis-infused candies to small children in Bairro Santa Cruz, Cascavel, was restrained by residents and detained by the Guarda Municipal on 13 November 2026. Two children aged 1 and 4 needed hospital care after eating the sweets, and tests indicated cannabis.
