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11/02/2023 – Police officers had a shooting with criminals from Morro da Sapinhatuba III during routine policing in the locality. According to officers, they were shot at by drug dealers and fought back. After an intense shooting, the police went through the alleys of the community, and in one of the accesses they found a man shot on the ground. With him a rifle was seized.
13/02/2023 – A shooting between drug traffickers and military police ended with two men dead in the Sapinhatuba I neighborhood. According to the Military Police, officers were on patrol around the place when they were shot at and shot back. The action also resulted in the apprehension of a pistol, a revolver, a radio and a large amount of drugs.
14/02/2023 – Operation Foco Divisas Program and Federal Highway Police (PRF) teams seized about half a ton of semi-precious stones, suspected of illegal extraction, valued at over R$700,000. Two people transporting the stones were arrested.The vehicle was approached on the BR 101 highway, near the Pontal neighborhood, where it was found that the driver was on a different route and was carrying a radio communicator in the truck.
18/02/2023 – Civil Police are investigating the case of an elderly man, aged 62, found dead in a rented house on Rua Laranjeiras, in the Perequê neighborhood. According to police, the body was inside a sofa, already in a state of decomposition. The corpse was found by the owner of the residence due to the bad smell. Still according to police, the owner reported that the property door was broken into.