Overview

• Rio de Janeiro advanced Operation Asfixia against the Comando Vermelho’s move toward Petrópolis, serving 18 arrest warrants, reporting 11–12 detainees, blocking about R$700,000 and facing intense gunfire in the Complexo da Maré.
• Investigators say a serving military police officer, Bruno da Cruz Rosa, and Petrópolis city assessor Robson Esteves de Oliveira acted as informants using GPS trackers on patrol cars; the assessor was arrested and dismissed, and the PM was taken into custody for disciplinary action.
• The Federal Police’s Operation Mangue Seco, a follow-up to an April seizure of 1.4 tonnes of cocaine, made four arrests in Espírito Santo and Rio Grande do Norte and seized nine luxury vehicles, a jet ski, weapons and about R$50,000.
• In Minas Gerais, Operação Engodo arrested seven over pool-sale fraud with a R$2.8 million property seized and R$30.1 million traced, while Falsum Facies executed 23 searches, seized 17 luxury vehicles and secured court-ordered blocks exceeding R$8.4 million.
• Parallel state actions included Pará’s Operação Liberdade with 350 officers in Belém, 25 arrests in a Vale do Paraíba megaoperation, 12 detainees in Teresina, 13 temporary arrest warrants in Mato Grosso tied to at least 22 homicides and eight CV-linked detentions in Ceará, with probes still ongoing.