Overview
- About 150 BOPE officers backed by armored vehicles swept several Santa Teresa communities, seizing rifles, pistols and revolvers.
- Military police chief Marcelo Menezes Nogueira identified the dead leader as Claudio Augusto dos Santos, 55, who faced multiple arrest warrants and more than 100 criminal charges.
- Six other suspected traffickers were killed, and a resident taken hostage died in the exchange of fire while his partner was rescued.
- Retaliation in downtown Rio included a torched bus and road barricades, with police reporting several arrests and vowing to remain deployed in the area.
- The raids coincided with a separate operation across 15 states targeting drug and arms networks and with Brasília resisting reported U.S. consideration of terrorist designations for Red Command and PCC.