Cops Smash Massive 2.4-Ton Drug Convoy on Brazil Highway

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Supplied media accompanying this report. Crime Watch Global has not independently verified the image or the statistics as evidence.Your browser does not support the video tag.BR-070 seizure footage: Supplied video attributed to the Brazil Federal Highway Police operation described in this report.Your browser does not support the video tag.Additional supplied drug-operation footage: Location, date, agency, seizure quantity, and connection to the BR-070 operation were not supplied.

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According to the supplied account, Brazil’s Federal Highway Police stopped a truck on the BR-070 near Primavera do Leste in Mato Grosso and uncovered more than 2.4 tonnes of suspected narcotics in the cargo.

The supplied report lists 1,929 kilograms of skunk cannabis, 483 kilograms of cocaine chloride, and nearly 46 kilograms of cocaine-base paste. Those quantities are attributed to the enforcement account and have not been independently weighed or laboratory-tested by Crime Watch Global.

The driver, truck, and entire reported cargo were handed to the Civil Police for further investigation and legal processing. The supplied material does not identify the driver, provide a complete charge sheet, or state a court outcome.

A second supplied video is presented as additional drug-operation footage only. Its location, date, agency, suspects, seizure quantity, and relationship to the BR-070 case were not supplied, so it should not be interpreted as footage of the same seizure.

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