Overview
- About 2,500 officers stormed the Alemão and Penha complexes to execute roughly 100 arrest warrants using armored vehicles, helicopters and police drones.
- Authorities say traffickers erected barricades and used drones to drop explosives, forcing transit diversions, school and clinic closures and disrupting services for more than 200,000 residents.
- The provisional toll includes four police officers, and searches and detainee transfers continued into Wednesday morning, according to state officials.
- Detainees include alleged CV figures Thiago “Belão do Quitungo” do Nascimento Mendes and Nicolas Fernandes Soares, as police target the gang’s territorial expansion and financing.
- The federal government held an emergency meeting, offered placements in maximum-security federal prisons and sent senior ministers to Rio, while federal prosecutors and rights groups opened investigations into the use of force.