24-year-old arrested with loaded submachine gun and 55 g of cannabis in Vitória
A 24-year-old man was arrested in the Caratoíra neighbourhood of Vitória on 31 October 2026 after military police saw him enter a house with a loaded semi-industrial submachine gun and a bag. Officers seized the gun, two magazines, a precision scale, crack, cocaine, PAC and marijuana, including 55 grams of cannabis.
🇧🇷 Caratoíra, Vitória, Espírito Santo · Brazil
- Arrested
- 1
- Cannabis
- 55 g
A 24-year-old man was arrested in the Caratoíra neighbourhood of Vitória,
Espírito Santo, on the afternoon of Saturday 31 October 2026, with a submachine
gun and drugs.[1] The Military Police said the semi-industrial weapon was
loaded and ready for use.[1] Officers of the 1st Battalion were patrolling an
area the force calls a drug sales point when they saw the man enter a house with
a gun in one hand and a bag in the other.[1] When he noticed the police
approach, he ignored the order to stop and threw the submachine gun and the bag
into a neighbouring property’s yard; the officers caught and stopped him.[2]
With the resident’s permission, the officers entered the yard and recovered the
material.[1]
Besides the weapon, officers seized two magazines and a precision scale.[1] He
and the seized items were taken to the 1st Regional Police Station of Vitória.[1]
It was the second submachine gun seized in Caratoíra in less than a week.[1]
On Monday 26 October, the Tactical Force of the same battalion arrested a
23-year-old in the neighbourhood with a semi-industrial submachine gun, two
magazines holding 39 intact .380 rounds and two mobile phones, the Espírito
Santo public security secretariat said.[1] The two cases involve different men
and different seizures.[1] Brazil’s drug law 11.343/2006 sets five to 15 years
in prison for trafficking, while illegal possession of a weapon carries two to
four years, or three to six if it is classed as restricted use.[1]
Sources
- Homem de 24 anos é preso com submetralhadora carregada, crack, maconha e cocaína. PIRANOT, 1 November 2026. In Portuguese.
- Homem é preso com submetralhadora, crack, maconha e cocaína em Vitória. Folha Vitória, 31 October 2026. In Portuguese.
Open questions the AI reported
- No charge had been announced, and the reports did not say whether the arrest was maintained after the man was taken to the police station.
- The reports give no weight for the 15 buchas of marijuana, so the 55-gram portion is the only cannabis weight published.
- The reports describe PAC only as 'material identificado como PAC' and do not say what the substance is.
- None of the three outlets names the man or says where he lives.
- All three accounts follow the Military Police's version; PIRANOT credits Folha Vitória, and no independent reporting of the arrest was found.
- The lead image on the submitted page is credited only 'Foto: Divulgação' and could not be confirmed to show this seizure, so it is not listed among the photos.
- Left out, as its quotation was not found in Tribuna Online: The drugs seized were 154 crack rocks and a 50-gram portion of crack, 97 units and a 36-gram portion of a substance identified as PAC, 11 vials of cocaine, and 15 buchas — the wraps marijuana is sold in — with a 55-gram portion of marijuana.
