Stepfather Held in Child Poisoning as Fatal Crashes and Police Cases Mount Across Brazil

Overview

• Civil Police arrested the stepfather in Alto Horizonte after forensic reports ruled that a 9-year-old died from poisoning and after agents found a pan of rice with dark granules in the home.
• He is under investigation for qualified femicide and for attempted homicide, with detectives still working to identify a motive and any accomplices.
• Two children were killed in Diadema when a car jumped the curb; state officials said the 64-year-old driver showed signs of intoxication, and officers arrested him in the act for homicide and negligent injury.
• A collision on the BR-262 in Minas Gerais left three people dead, including a mother and her 4-year-old child, and shut the highway for hours as police and firefighters cleared spilled grain and investigated the cause.
• São Paulo’s appeals court ordered Military Highway Police Major Rafael Cambuí to face a jury on a qualified homicide charge in the 2024 shooting death of Luan dos Santos during a road stop.