Brazil Intensifies Multi-State Crackdowns as Faction Violence Escalates

Overview

• Bahia authorities named nine men killed in Recôncavo raids and linked them to BDM, kept reinforced patrols in place, dismantled camps and cited criminals’ 7.62 rifles as forcing a war-level police response.
• Rio’s 34th DP rescued a mototaxi rider tortured after mistaken identity in Vila Kennedy during an operation targeting CV expansion, with 18 arrests, two suspects killed, weapons and drugs seized, barricades cleared and local schools and health units impacted.
• A forensic report on the Guaíba case identified asphyxia from a mata‑leão hold as the most probable cause of the condition that led to Carlos Eduardo Nunes’s death, noting a stun gun may have contributed, as the BM’s internal probe moves to review by the Military Justice prosecutor.
• São Paulo’s Cerco unit reported the arrest in Bahia of Isaías dos Santos Silva, suspected of killing Beatriz Munhos in a sale‑ambush, and requested his transfer to the state prison system.
• Other actions advanced in three states: Roraima launched phase two of Operação Afluência with searches tied to a September homicide and faction links; Pernambuco’s Gaeco made new arrests in an emendas‑diversion probe involving over R$12 million; and Acre police found a body transported in a refrigerator and detained monitored suspects and an adolescent.