Overview

• City officials say 980 authorized stallholders were inspected in the first month, with 160 fines issued, including 31 fines across 190 inspections this weekend.
• In the past three days, teams confiscated 401 bottles of distilled beverages from unlicensed vendors on the sand and boardwalk.
• The operation deploys drones and 21 long‑range cameras from the Operations and Resilience Center and brings together SEOP, the Municipal Guard, CET‑Rio and the transport secretariat.
• Enforcement teams took 18 people to police stations, arrested three, and seized hundreds of chairs, tables, grills, coolers and vendor carts used without authorization.
• Rio’s health department reports no confirmed methanol intoxication cases in the city, and a suspected case in Niterói remains under laboratory analysis with the patient in good general condition.