Police Find Clandestine Cemetery in Rio das Pedras, Recover Two Bodies

Overview

• Agents from the DDPA and DC-Polinter located the site after checking intelligence and recovered two sets of remains from improvised graves in the Areal section.
• The remains were sent to the Instituto Médico-Legal for identification and analysis of cause of death.
• Investigators are examining possible links to the disappearance of 19-year-old mototaxista Alan Pereira Martins de Lima, whom police say was seized by militiamen in October.
• Police assert that the local militia uses Areal to execute victims and conceal bodies, reflecting a pattern of more than a dozen disappearances since 2021.
• Civil Police teams say they will continue searches in the area for additional clandestine burial sites as the inquiry advances.