Overview

• The Deic-led Operation Conexões Ocultas followed roughly 18 months of investigation into a theft and receptação network based in Paraisópolis.
• Authorities say 36 arrest warrants and 46 search orders were issued, with 15 arrest warrants executed—11 in the community and four on people already jailed—while about 20 targets remain at large.
• The man killed was identified as Guilherme Heisenberg da Silva Nogueira, known as Bronx, who police say fired a .38 revolver at officers before being shot.
• Investigators assert the group is connected to the killings of police delegate Josenildo Belarmino, architect Jeferson Dias Aguiar, and cyclist Vitor Medrado.
• Police link the scheme to Suedna Barbosa Carneiro, the “Mainha do Crime,” accused of financing robberies, supplying weapons and false plates, and buying stolen goods; she has been in custody since February.