02/05/2024 – Federal Police (PF) arrested a man who ingested 100 capsules of cocaine at Galeão Airport, on Ilha do Governador, on Thursday night (02). According to the investigations, PF agents seized 1kg from the suspect’s body. He would board a plane bound for Paris, France.
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03/05/2024 – The Civil Police arrested two suspects for carrying out the illegal sale of foreign exchange inside Galeão Airport, on Ilha do Governador, on the morning of Friday (03). During the operation, agents from the Rio de Janeiro International Airport Police Station (DAIRJ) seized R$28,000, $20, and an amount in Euros. Operation “Cambio Maleiros” aims to curb irregular exchange rates with a focus on major events that take place this weekend in Rio de Janeiro, especially the concert of Madonna.
04/05/2024 – A suspect was thrown into a dumpster by people on Saturday night (04) on Copacabana Beach, south RJ, hours before Madonna’s concert. According to witnesses, he was trying to carry out thefts at the location. In a video circulating on social media, the suspect can be seen being punched and kicked several times by other men, while being dragged towards the dumpster and thrown into it.
05/05/2024 – A criminal police officer was caught, on Sunday morning (05/05), trying to enter with 3.3 kg of marijuana in the Jonas Lopes de Carvalho Penitentiary, known as Bangu 4, in the Gericinó Complex. According to the Secretariat of Penitentiary Administration (SEAP), the officer was arriving for a shift when other agents noticed that he had a disproportionate volume in his clothes. The suspect tried to flee but was restrained by other officers, who found 10 marijuana tablets hidden in his pants and boots.
05/05/2024 – A young man was shot dead in Anil, in Jacarepaguá, in Rio’s West Zone. The execution took place around 22:00 on Jacarepaguá Road. According to witness reports, men took the young man to the place all tied up and threw him near a bus stop. Then, several shots were fired at Carlos Eduardo, who died on the spot.
05/05/2024 – The Military Police (PM) arrested two suspects and apprehended two teenagers for thefts in the early hours of Sunday (05/05) in the South Zone of Rio. The first pair had committed the crime on Flamengo Beach, while the youths were in Leblon. According to the PM, the teenagers were stealing from pedestrians who were walking through Leblon. In Praia do Flamengo, the two suspects were arrested shortly after committing a robbery.
06/05/2024 – A boy died after being shot in an attempted robbery on the way back from a luau on Flamengo Beach. Personal trainer Luis Felipe Alves do Nascimento, 27, was shot on Sunday morning (05/05) during an attempted robbery at Flamengo Beach and died on Monday morning (05/06). According to the Botafogo battalion, the victim was with friends when two men on a motorcycle approached and announced the robbery. Witnesses reported that one of the criminals approached the physical educator’s girlfriend and demanded that she hand over her cell phone. The woman replied that she didn’t have any devices, which would have angered the bandit. Luis then intervened and was shot.
07/05/2024 – The Narcotics Repression Police Station (DRE) arrested, on Tuesday morning (05/07), a suspect of having traded weapons that were stolen from the Army arsenal in São Paulo. Luiz Cláudio Severo dos Santos was located in the community of Quitungo, in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro. According to the investigations, he participated in the negotiations for the sale of the stolen weapons in Barueri in September 2023.
07/05/2024 – Agents of the Cargo Robbery and Theft Police Station (DRFC) carried out, on the morning of Tuesday (05/07), an operation against a gang specialized in the theft of high-value cargo. So far, six people have been arrested. According to the investigations, the group is made up of criminals from the Red Command (CV), the largest criminal faction in the state. In one of the robberies, in April of this year, the criminals hijacked a van with employees who were heading to the warehouse of a transport company in Pavuna, North Zone. The group accessed a safe room where about 10,000 rounds of ammunition of different calibers were stored.
07/05/2024 – App driver Leonardo Dias, 35, was arrested on Tuesday (05/07). He is suspected of participating in robberies of tourists in the South zone of Rio. According to the investigations of the Special Delegation for Tourism Support (DEAT), Leonardo started the race and minutes later discovered that the vehicle was broken. When he stopped, a motorcyclist, an accomplice of the driver, appeared armed at the scene, surrendered the passengers, and robbed them. Two Italian women and three French women were victims. In general, the robberies took place at the exit of the Santa Bárbara Tunnel, in Catumbi, and on Avenida Epitácio Pessoa, in Lagoa.
09/05/2024 – An unidentified man was found dead with his hands tied on Sargento Carlos Argemiro Camargo Street, in Anil, West RJ, on Wednesday night (05/09). The region is experiencing an intense wave of violence and has frequently recorded deaths.
09/05/2024 – A criminal was arrested in the early hours of Thursday (05/09) in Copacabana, in Rio’s South Zone. The man has 17 criminal records. According to the Military Police, the boy was arrested after agents received an alert issued by the facial recognition system. The man was captured on Souza Lima Street. Against him, there was a warrant for his arrest for embezzlement. The case was registered in the 12th DP (Copacabana).
