During a joint operation by the Civil and Military police of Rio de Janeiro, this Friday (10), agents found an urn in the Muzema community, in Itanhangáin the Southwest Zone of the capital Fluminense.
In a press conference, Civil Police Secretary Felipe Curi explained that the ballot box was used for drug traffickers to avoid arrest.
“People extorted for drug trafficking had to put up the money that the criminal faction charged, which shows that the criminals changed the way they charged and started not exposing themselves,” he stated.
Fifteen communities in the state were targets of the operation to contain the advance of the CV (Red Command), this Friday (10). A.
The communities located in this area were historically commanded by militiamen, but this has changed with the territorial expansion of the Red Command.
“There is no difference between drug trafficking and the militia. They commit the same crimes. So that they (criminals) are no longer exposed, they use the ballot box, leaving it there and people go there and put the money in. They are theoretically safer, but the investigation work identified this ballot box”, says Felipe Curi.
integrated. Six deaths occurred in an action by the 41st BPM (Irajá) in Morro do Juramento, in Vicente de Carvalho, in the North Zone of Rio. The suspects were reportedly shot in a confrontation with agents, according to the PM. They were rescued, but did not resist.
“The operations were surgical and the results are what we are seeing,” said Victor dos Santos, secretary of state for Public Security.
In total, 19 people were arrested this Friday. Ten rifles were seized, in addition to eight pistols, two grenades and 11 tons of barricades were removed.
Operation started on Thursday (9)
On Thursday (9), another Operation Containment action was carried out in the community of Chacrinha, in Praça Seca, in the Southwest Zone of Rio. On that occasion, the man identified as the head of drug trafficking in Gardênia Azul, in Jacarepaguá, was killed.
Ygor Freitas de Andrade, known as Matuê, is also suspected of shooting and killing the Core agent, the elite troop of the Rio Civil Police, José Antônio Lourenço, in May this year.
He also allegedly took part in a clash in August that left six people dead. There were three outstanding arrest warrants against Matuê.
Two other suspects, believed to be the drug dealer’s security guards, also died in a confrontation with the police.
