The operation carried out in Complexo da Maré resulted in the closure of roads, health units and schools in the regionon Monday morning (9).
The new phase of Operation Tourniquet seeks arrest members of the Red Commandinvolved in the theft of vehicles and cargo. Until now,
In the area of education, overall 44 schools closed or were impacted The Municipal Secretariat reported that 42 units were affected in Maré, while the State Secretariat stated that two schools were closed.
The Municipal Health Department reported that four clinics stopped operating this morning: Augusto Boal, Adib Jatene, Jeremias Moraes da Silva and the Vila do João Municipal Health Center announced the safer access protocol.
The operation also resulted in closure of sections of the most important roads from Rio de Janeiro. The Yellow Line had sections closed, in both directions, due to police action and due to a burning car on the highway. The road was completely reopened at 9:25 am.
A Red Line was impacted with intermittent closures and also a vehicle that was on fire. After the intervention of firefighters and the Traffic Engineering Company (CET-Rio), the road was reopened.
Due to interruptions on both lines, traffic on the Avenida Brasil it was congested in one direction. The information is from the Rio Operations Center (COR). See below.
Understand the operation
The objective of this phase of the operation is arrest members of the Red Commandresponsible for drug trafficking and theft of vehicles and cargo in Complexo da Maré.
The police point out that drug traffickers, leaders of the faction, Rodrigo da Silva Caetano, aka “Motoboy” and Jorge Luís Moura Barbosa, aka “Alvarenga”, are responsible for planning and manage a vehicle theft ring and cargo in the region.
The scheme resulted in the financing of a “little box” of the Red Commandwhich enables the purchase of weapons, ammunition and the payment of an “allowance” to the relatives of faction prisoners, as well as the faction leaders.
Members of the criminal organization received orders from the faction’s leadership, mainly from Edgar Alves Andrade, the Dockto set up logistical support and enable robberies in several neighborhoods in Rio de Janeiro and the Metropolitan Region.
The research also highlighted the following illicit activities that occur within communities related to vehicle and cargo theft:
- Storage, transshipment and resale of stolen cargo to recipients
- Cloning of vehicles for later resale or exchange for weapons and drugs
- Dismantling vehicles for resale of parts
- Use of stolen vehicles by gangs to travel and commit other crimes
- Captivity of kidnapped victims to make transfers via PIX
On December 3rd, the RJ police mobilized 900 agents for the previous stage of Operation Tourniquet, in which
