Police Detain Two in Separate Sex-Crime Cases in Maranhão and Bahia

Overview

• In Santa Inês, Maranhão, police arrested a man in flagrante after a 13-year-old reported being threatened, forced from school, taken by motorcycle to a motel, and raped.
• Investigators confirmed the incident at the motel and identified the suspect through the Pix key used to pay for the room before detaining him at his home in Vila Marconi.
• At the station, the Maranhão suspect confessed and the case was registered as rape of a vulnerable person, a crime classified as heinous under Brazilian law.
• In Antônio Cardoso, Bahia, an 18-year-old was taken into custody on a court-ordered preventive detention after an investigation into stalking and death threats aimed at coercing a 24-year-old into sex.
• Police say the Bahia victim had Urgent Protective Measures granted by the court, which were allegedly violated, and the suspect remains jailed at the disposal of the judiciary as the case proceeds.