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Overview
- Marcio Borghi Ribeiro, listed on the Ministry of Justice’s Red List, was captured at 6 a.m. in coastal São Paulo in an operation by Paraná civil police with support from São Paulo officers.
- Police say he supplied weapons to the Primeiro Comando da Capital and acted as a faction leader in Paraná, with prior arrests for coordinating home and bank robberies.
- Officers used a thermal camera during the search, and the exact city of the arrest was not disclosed for operational reasons.
- After his arrest, Ribeiro was transferred to Paraná and placed at the disposal of the judiciary; his legal defense has not been reached by reporters.
- Investigators link him to a November seizure in Piraquara of about 30 kg of explosives and multiple firearms, and related search warrants today yielded a stolen motorcycle and the arrest of a relative for receiving.