Arrests in Rocinha Killing and Salvador Triple Homicide as Police Intensify Operations

Overview

• Bahia investigators reached four suspects in the murder of three internet technicians in Salvador, and Caíque “Badalo” Nunes dos Santos died after confronting police during Operation Signum Fractum.
• Augusto Dias da Silva, suspected of killing his pregnant girlfriend in Rocinha, was captured at Rio’s main bus terminal less than 24 hours after the crime in a DHC-led intelligence operation.
• Police in Feira de Santana shut down a drug sales site disguised as a water reseller, arresting a man in flagrante and seizing nearly 200 portions of narcotics under a DRFR operation.
• São Vicente authorities identified 19-year-old Rael Fabiano Veiga Ungaretti from video of a sea robbery against a kayaking couple; he is considered a fugitive and a warrant and photos will be circulated to security agencies.
• In Juiz de Fora, a man was executed and an adolescent survived by feigning death; the case goes to the 4th Civil Police precinct as investigators examine possible links to a recent triple homicide in Ubá.