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Overview
- In Espírito Santo, a father alerted police after CCTV showed his 18-year-old son setting fire to the family sawmill in Irupi, with no injuries reported.
- Firefighters extinguished the blaze after a municipal water truck began the response, and police say the suspect threw flammable liquid to prolong the fire and threatened officers with a metal bar.
- Civil Police report the Irupi suspect was booked in flagrante for attempted qualified homicide and sent to the state prison system.
- In Mato Grosso, police say an 18-year-old poured about five liters of ethanol on his 36-year-old mother, furniture and appliances in Santa Rita do Trivelato and tried to ignite the house with a lighter.
- The mother escaped with a 4-year-old child, officers found the home ransacked with pools of fuel, and the suspect and his 20-year-old girlfriend were arrested in flagrante with identities withheld as investigations continue.