Overview

• Paraná Civil Police are awaiting the results of forensic autopsy and toxicology examinations to clarify the cause of her breathing difficulties and fatal cardiac arrest.
• Brazil’s Federal Revenue Service is conducting a detailed inspection of the 26 iPhones seized from the woman’s body.
• Investigators have widened their probe by questioning passengers and associates and analyzing closed-circuit television footage from the bus and rest areas.
• Scientific Police reports indicate no drugs were detected by sniffer dogs, though several bottles of alcohol were recovered from her luggage.
• Authorities view the incident as part of a broader surge in creative smuggling methods amid a black-market cellphone trade that illegally funnels thousands of devices into Brazil every day.