31/08/2026 – On Monday (31), Federal Police officers captured a 37-year-old fugitive in the Lagomar neighborhood. Wanted for his direct involvement in a lotery shop robbery in Paraíba, the suspect had been on the run since the previous year following an 11-year and two-month prison sentence issued by the 1st Criminal Court of Sapê. Following intelligence gathering and field tracking by agents from the Macaé Federal Police Station, the man was arrested and transferred to the Rio de Janeiro state prison system to serve his sentence.
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02/09/2026 – On Wednesday (2), the 32nd Military Police Battalion launched an intelligence-led operation in the Parque Aeroporto neighborhood to target extortion and illegal commercial monopolies enforced by drug traffickers. Investigating “parasitic entrepreneurship,” tactical and reserve units targeted a local internet provider suspected of benefiting from cartel-enforced exclusivity, confiscating a notebook, service orders, and fiber-optic cable after staff failed to produce legal operating documentation. Additionally, officers inspected local businesses enforcing mandated sales of a single mineral water brand under cartel orders, taking four individuals into custody and delivering all seized materials to the 123rd Police Station.
02/09/2026 – On Wednesday (2), Civil Police officers from the 123rd Police Station captured a fugitive during an operation in the Lagomar neighborhood. Wanted under a preventive arrest warrant for a violent 2020 armed robbery in Rio de Janeiro’s Cachambi neighborhood, the suspect was located inside a residential property where police discovered over 2,000 packages of illicit drugs packaged for sale. In addition to executing the outstanding arrest warrant, officers charged the man in flagrante with drug trafficking before returning him to the state prison system.
04/09/2026 – On Friday (4), the Federal Police launched “Operação Polaridade” to investigate fraudulent administrative procedures involving the issuance of gun permits for shooters, hunters, and collectors (CACs). Armed with 20 arrest warrants and 26 search-and-seizure warrants across Espírito Santo and Rio de Janeiro state, including Macaé, Niterói, and Rio de Janeiro, agents targeted an illicit scheme involving forged proof-of-residence documents, duplicate technical certificates, and fraudulent approvals for restricted-caliber firearms. The probe centers on a third-party contractor in Niterói suspected of approving non-compliant registration applications, with investigators uncovering links between the fraudulent paperwork and military-grade weapons seized in a prior police operation.
