25/05/2024 – A São Paulo civil police officer was shot on Saturday (25/05) by a military police officer after an argument in the east of the capital. According to witnesses, the 37-year-old civil police officer was reprimanded by a merchant after urinating on the façade of his store, on the corner of Irmã Carolina Street and Álvaro Ramos Street, in Belenzinho. The military police officer, who was passing through the area at the time, went to intervene in the argument and was attacked by the civil police officer. Claiming self-defense, the PM shot the civil police officer twice.
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27/05/2024 – Customers and employees of a restaurant were victims of a mass robbery in the Pinheiros neighborhood, West Zone of São Paulo, on Monday night (27/05). According to witnesses, at least nine mobile phones were taken. According to the Department of Public Security, the crime took place around 21:00h on Rua Cônego Eugênio Leite. An employee of the restaurant was surrendered by an armed man as he arrived at the store. The thief entered the store with the employee and demanded that customers hand over their cell phones. He then fled with the devices.
28/05/2024 – The Federal Police launched an operation on Tuesday (28/05) in São Paulo, to investigate fraud in withdrawals from the Guarantee Fund for Length of Service (FGTS) of professional soccer players such as Paolo Guerrero, who suffered a scam of R$ 2.3 million in 2022. He played for Corinthians and Flamengo and made the first complaint about the scam, which gave rise to the investigation. In the searches, police found a list of names of other athletes who may have suffered the same type of scam. Six search warrants were executed in the metropolitan region of São Paulo. According to the authorities, the scammers posed as proxies for the players with false documents to make the withdrawals.
28/05/2024 – The Wilson José Abdalla daycare center, in Bom Retiro, in the central region of São Paulo, has been invaded and robbed nine times this year. In the last eight days, there have been four robberies, the most recent on Tuesday (28/05). In one of the invasions, activities had to be stopped. On Monday (27/05), the daycare center even asked parents to leave their children at home after the pressurizer on the water tank was stolen. Since the beginning of 2024, 22 robberies and thefts have been recorded in schools in the capital. Last year, in the entire metropolitan region, there were 14.
29/05/2024 – On Wednesday (29), the Civil Police of São Paulo launched Operation Demeter to serve search and seizure warrants against Driele da Silva Teixeira, a public employee suspected of scam in funds from food vouchers for employees of the São Paulo State Department of Education. More than R$ 41,000 may have been robbed, and the first case would have occurred in 2021. The warrants were served on properties in Largo do Arouche, in the central region of São Paulo, and on Estrada das Lágrimas, in Sacomã, in the South Zone. According to the Civil Police, several food cards were seized.
