A Brigada Militar patrol arrested a man on the night of Monday, 2 November 2026, in Bairro Gressler in Venâncio Aires, Rio Grande do Sul.[1] Officers detained the man for the crime of drug trafficking.[1] After arresting him in flagrante, officers took him to the Delegacia de Polícia de Pronto Atendimento, the ready-response police station, where the case was formally registered.[2]

During the operation in the Gressler neighbourhood, officers located and seized five portions of marijuana and 15 portions of cocaine, as well as cash.[1] The second account of the same night describes the haul as five portions of marijuana, 15 buchas of cocaine, a mobile telephone, material for packaging drugs and a sum of cash.[2]

Officers had approached and searched the suspect near a place in Bairro Gressler described as known for the sale of narcotics.[2] The arresting unit was a Brigada Militar patrol from Venâncio Aires operating that night in the Gressler neighbourhood.[2] Officers found all of the drugs on the suspect himself during that same street stop.[2]