Overview

• The Ceará state prosecutor’s office formally denounced 16 Military Police officers accused of taking routine payoffs during patrols, citing covert recordings and detailing a pattern of quick drive‑throughs to collect cash before leaving without policing.
• Rio de Janeiro police arrested seven suspected milícia members at a party venue in Paciência and seized a rifle, a pistol, magazines, ammunition, a ledger of collections and about R$19,000 in cash, with the group booked for armed criminal organization and restricted‑use weapons.
• In Porteirinha, Minas Gerais, civil police arrested an alleged trafficking coordinator and executed financial measures that included a court‑ordered block of R$500,000 and the seizure of high‑value vehicles tied to suspected money laundering.
• Recent operations produced deadly confrontations: two suspects were killed in Campinas during a vehicle stop, two in Jundiaí after a pursuit, four in a Rota action that rescued victims from an alleged ‘tribunal do crime’ in São Paulo, and one in Água Branca (PI), while in Niterói a man died and two officers were shot.
• Civil police in Búzios seized over a thousand cocaine packets, a 9mm pistol and faction‑branded materials linked to the Comando Vermelho, and in Lençóis Paulista a death following a police approach was recorded as suspicious with an inquiry underway.