PRF finds 7.3 kg of hashish in a bus backpack at BR-116 post in Bahia
Federal highway police stopped an interstate bus at their post on BR-116 in Vitória da Conquista, Bahia, and found seven packages of hashish weighing about 7.3 kilograms in a passenger's backpack. The passenger was taken to the civil police with the drug, and the PRF valued the load at almost 146,000 reais.
🇧🇷 PRF post on BR-116, Vitória da Conquista, Bahia · Brazil
Federal highway police stopped an interstate passenger bus at their post on
BR-116 in Vitória da Conquista, in south-west Bahia, shortly before midday on
Sunday 8 November.[1][2][3][4][5]The bus was running the Rio de Janeiro to Natal line,
and the check began at about 11:40.[6][7][2][3][4][5]Searching the luggage hold, officers
noticed a strong smell of marijuana and traced it to a black backpack.[1][2][3][4]
Inside were seven packages of hashish weighing almost 7.3 kilograms, which the
police seized.[6][7][2][3][4]The officers identified the passenger who owned the backpack
and asked him to get off the bus to explain.[6][2][4][5]He told them he had spent four
days on holiday in Rio de Janeiro and said he had previous records for drug
trafficking and for using counterfeit currency.[1][7][2][3][4]
Using the highway police’s own valuation method for seizures, the load was
estimated at almost 146,000 reais, described as financial damage to criminal
organisations.[6][7][3][4]Because the police treated the case as drug trafficking, the
passenger and the hashish were taken to the Integrated Public Security District
of the Civil Police in Vitória da Conquista so that the arrest could be
formalised.[6][2][3][4][5]
The hashish was to be sent for forensic examination.[2]
Photos and video
Seven packets of hashish laid out around the PRF crest on the bonnet of a patrol car. Photo: PRFPhoto details
The weight is given as approximately 7.3 kilograms ("quase 7,3 quilos"), not an exact measured figure.
The 146,000 reais is the PRF's own valuation method estimate, not a sale price.
No court appearance, charges filed or subsequent legal outcome was reported beyond the formalisation of the arrest at the civil police station.
No source names the passenger or states how many people were on the bus.
A TARDE gives the hashish weight as about 7.5 kilograms ("Cerca de 7,5 Kg"), while the PRF's own statement and other accounts give about 7.3 kilograms; the report keeps 7.3 kilograms.
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