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Brazil Reports Murder Conviction, App-Driver Killing Case, and 12-Year Captivity Rescue Over Two Days

A wave of arrests culminates in a key conviction, signaling intensified criminal enforcement.

Overview

  • In Bahia, Tiago Campos Teles was convicted of the premeditated, triplly qualified murder of lawyer Gleidson Nery de Jesus and received a sentence of more than 35 years in a closed regime.
  • In the Federal District, a Seape officer working as an app driver was killed during a robbery, with two 15-year-olds and an 18-year-old detained as police investigate the case as latrocínio.
  • In Rio Negrinho, Santa Catarina, police rescued a young woman after 12 years in captivity and arrested her stepfather, with investigators examining the mother’s possible knowledge of ongoing sexual and physical abuse.
  • São Paulo’s 4th Military Court acquitted three military police officers of torture and fraud charges and convicted two others of arbitrary violence to open-regime sentences of 2 years, 2 months, and 20 days.
  • In Rondonópolis, Mato Grosso, the second phase of Operation Insídia led to the preventive arrest of a 27-year-old suspected of kidnapping, torture, homicide, and concealment of a body, with possible gang involvement under investigation.