Cross-State Arrests Advance Probes Into Brazil’s Recent Killings

Overview

• São Paulo investigators detained Isaías dos Santos Silva in Mirante, Bahia, as the alleged shooter in Beatriz Munhos’s killing; police say he confessed to firing after being hit with pepper spray and a transfer to SP is being arranged while an alleged accomplice remains wanted.
• Hours after physician Alan Carlos de Lima was shot dead outside a health unit in Arapiraca, his ex-wife was arrested in Maceió with the weapon police say was used in the crime, and the couple’s child was kept with the maternal grandmother under guardianship oversight.
• Police from São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro arrested a fugitive suspected of murdering a clinic partner and a patient in Suzano, locating him in Guaratiba and preparing his transfer to face charges in SP.
• In Rondonópolis, Operation Maná led to arrests of suspects accused of seizing and torturing two brothers, with Guilherme Eduardo Kruger killed after a dispute tied to unpaid child support, and at least one target still at large.
• A neighbor accused of fatally shooting a pregnant woman and her husband in Formosa was captured in rural Minas Gerais, with investigators pointing to a financial dispute as the motive.