São Paulo Mayor’s Sister Arrested After Smart Sampa Facial-Recognition Alert

Overview

• Smart Sampa flagged a wanted person inside the UBS Veleiros health unit in Socorro, triggering a police response around 3:20 p.m.
• Military police from the 1st Battalion confirmed Janaina Reis Miron’s identity on site and took her to the 11th Police District in Santo Amaro for processing.
• The warrants list desacato, drunk driving, and bodily injury, stemming from cases in 2014 and from an October 2022 stop in Botucatu.
• Court records show a July 2025 sentence of one year and three months in open regime for the 2022 incident, and a separate 2014 conviction involving her son.
• City officials say the detention followed Smart Sampa identification protocols and judicial orders, drawing notice because the system is a flagship of Mayor Ricardo Nunes’s administration.