Brazil Reports Wave of Violent Crimes as Multi-State Arrests Advance, Including Suspect Held in Beatriz Munhos Case

Overview

• Police captured Isaías dos Santos Silva in Mirante, Bahia, for the killing of 20-year-old Beatriz Munhos during a staged drone sale in São Paulo, with authorities seeking a third suspect and requesting his transfer to SP.
• Hours after the shooting death of doctor Alan Carlos de Lima in Arapiraca, his ex-wife, also a physician, was arrested in Maceió with the weapon, as the child remains with the maternal grandmother under tutelary oversight.
• Joint civil police teams from São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro arrested a suspect in the double homicide at a rehabilitation clinic in Suzano, who had been on the run since January and is set to be transferred to SP.
• In Rio Grande do Sul, a man was preventively detained on suspicion of running over and fatally stabbing his ex-partner’s boyfriend, while Mato Grosso police arrested suspects in a sequester and torture case that left one brother dead.
• Public and domestic violence cases under investigation include a fatal beating in a Manaus food court, the death of a 16-year-old who tried to stop a street fight in Mauá, a woman stabbed outside work in Assis with the ex-partner at large, a Recife femicide with dismemberment, and a husband’s strangulation confession in MS.