Occurrences of robberies and thefts in the state of São Paulo in the first quarter of 2024 fell by 14.5% compared to the same period of last year. There were 51,999 registrations between January and March this year, compared to 60,805 in the first three months of 2023. The data was published by the SSP (Public Security Secretariat) of São Paulo on Thursday (25/04). The Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans) management portfolio states that this is the lowest level of robberies for the period since the beginning of the historical series, in 2001. The number of victims of robberies followed by death, reached 46, an increase of 27.8% compared to the same period last year. In the capital, the number more than doubled. There were 18 deaths from January to March this year, an increase of 157% compared to the same period in 2023, which had seven deaths.
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21/04/2024 – Publicist Yuri Costa, 23, disappeared in the early hours of last Sunday (21) after going to the gay sauna Chilli hotel, in the São Paulo central area. Yuri was found on Monday (22/04) morning without any type of ID on Rua General Osório, in Santa Ifigênia, and taken by ambulance from Samu to UPA (Emergency Care Unit) Vergueiro, also in the central region, where he died. The possible cause of death is indicated as insufficient oxygen in the blood (hypoxemia) and excessive loss of blood or fluids (hypovolemic shock).
23/04/2024 – A police patrol violently approached a man who had called 911. The man rents a house and had been threatened by the ex-husband of his landlord, who was armed with a knife and ordered him to pay rent for a month that had already been paid. Still, police turned against the tenant, immobilized him, and used pepper spray on his face. The officers were removed from street duty.
23/04/2024 – On Monday morning (23/04), an armed man robbed a driver while he was stopped at a red light on Rua Abílio Soares, Paraíso neighborhood, São Paulo’s South Zone. The criminal took valuable items, such as a cell phone, wristwatch, and more. He was not arrested.
24/04/2024 – A 32-year-old man died after falling from a building in the center of São Paulo, on Tuesday afternoon (24), in a Military Police action in the region. According to the police report, he died while attempting to escape the officers who had invaded an apartment where he and another man would store stolen cell phones that were resold to clients. The police officers went to the property, spoke to the property manager, and entered the building after receiving a hint from another Senegalese.
24/04/2024 – A clandestine cable TV factory was the target of an action by Deic (State Department of Criminal Investigations), on Tuesday morning (24/04), in Canindé neighborhood, in São Paulo’s East Zone. The police seized several TV Box equipment, the so-called “gato net”, responsible for illegally capturing and transmitting the programming of subscription channel companies. The devices were sold in popular shopping centers spread across the city of São Paulo. By using such devices, clients become vulnerable to hacker attacks.
25/04/2024 – A group of 100 immigrants protested against the death of Serigne Mourballa Mbaye, 36, a Senegalese immigrant who died after falling from the 6th floor of a building occupied by homeless people. Friends of the Senegalese man and African immigrants who frequent Guaianases Street, in the Campos Elíseos neighborhood, where he died, say the case involves racism and abuse of authority. Two police officers entered the building without a judicial warrant.
25/04/2024 – On Wednesday (24/04), the Federal Police in São Paulo arrested four more suspects for exchanging luggage tags at Guarulhos International Airport, in Greater São Paulo. The tags were put in other bags filled with drugs to be transported to destinations in Europe. The people arrested – three men and one woman – are accused of having been enticed by international drug trafficking gangs to participate in the scheme to send narcotics abroad. Among those detained by the PF are three employees of a private company called Orbital – who work in the airport’s restricted baggage area – and a woman who provided support to the group from outside the terminals.
