Military Police Força Tática officers arrested a man for suspected drug trafficking on the night of Thursday 29 October 2026 in Votuporanga.[1] The patrol was on Rua Lidai Benini in the Santa Eliza neighbourhood when officers noticed a man carrying a bag who tried to move away and hide the package by a post among tyres.[2] Inside the bag officers found a brick of marijuana and a portion of cocaine.[2]

The man said he had received the substances from another person and was to carry them for delivery to a third person.[2] He then said more drugs were in his house, stored in a backpack he used for work.[2] With his partner’s authorisation, officers entered the home and searched it.[2] In the house they found two more portions of cocaine inside the backpack and a precision scale hidden under the laundry-area sink.[2]

In total officers seized 504 grams of marijuana, alongside 28.4 grams of cocaine, a precision scale and a mobile phone.[1] The man was taken to Votuporanga’s Central de Flagrantes, formally arrested for drug trafficking and held at the disposition of the justice system.[2]