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Brazil Orders 23 Police Arrests as Prosecutors Charge Officers in Separate Killing

Preventive custody now anchors a push to secure evidence in killings tied to police or crime groups.

Overview

  • In Tocantins, judges ordered the preventive arrest of 23 military police on Friday over alleged executions, torture and cover‑ups in the 2022 Miracema massacre.
  • Rio prosecutors charged two military police with killing businessman Daniel Patrício after more than 20 rifle shots, with the jury court receiving the complaint.
  • Ceará police hold two brothers in preventive custody in the attack that severed Ana Clara de Oliveira’s hands, after a transfer ordered Wednesday as doctors report stable recovery following reimplant surgery.
  • Investigators arrested two men in Cuiabá as suspects in the Bayeux killings of four Bahia workers, citing a probe that points to a drug debt linked to one victim.
  • In Rio, a civil police officer was suspended and placed under temporary arrest after investigators said he fired into a rideshare car and killed passenger Thamires Rodrigues de Souza Peixoto.