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On February 14, 2024, two inmates from Acre gained national attention after escaping from the maximum security federal prison in Mossoró.
The task force to recapture Deibson Cabral Nascimento and Rogério da Silva Mendonça lasted 50 days and, according to data from , cost around R$6 million to the public coffers.
The resources were allocated to expenses with tickets, daily allowances, fuel, maintenance and air operations. The ministry’s panel also points out that the majority of the expenses went to the Federal Highway Police (PRF), which received approximately R$3.3 million. Check out the division:
Federal Highway Police (PRF) — R$3.3 million
National Force — R$1.4 million
Federal Police (PF) — R$665 thousand
National Penal Force — R$625 thousand
The operation coordinated by the Federal Police, with support from the Federal Highway Police, the Civil and Military police and other security bodies, mobilized around 600 agents.
Acreans were arrested in Pará, 50 days after their escape/Photo: Reproduction
Two years after the case that led the country to follow, day after day, the search for the fugitives, the ContilNet remember how it all happened.
In preliminary investigations, the agencies pointed out that the two inmates began their escape at around 3 am on the 14th. They fled through the ceiling of the cells, tearing off a metal aluminum structure and power cables connected to the cell’s lighting.
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The penitentiary was undergoing renovation. And it was precisely with a tool used in the works that the two inmates cut a fence and escaped into the prison yard.
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Furthermore, it has already been confirmed that the prisoners made a mixture of soap and toilet paper and used it as a type of plaster to hide the holes in the walls. Soap was also used to make the hole more slippery and make it easier for them to pass through.
The penitentiary management only realized that the two had escaped two hours later, around 5am. The two had their names included in Interpol’s red broadcast.
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Since February 19, men from the National Force had been carrying out sweeps in the forests and also closed in on highways with the aim of preventing Deibson Nascimento and Rogério Mendonça from breaking the search perimeter in Rio Grande do Norte, which is what happened. The pair was found in the state of Pará, in the municipality of Marabá.
The owner of the house told the police that he was surprised by the duo when he was at home with his wife/Photo: Reproduction
The two stayed for seven days in the rural area of Baraúna. According to the police, the criminals paid R$5,000 to stay there. Near the house, researchers discovered, at the time, a hole, like a hiding place, used to avoid detection by drones that identify human heat. Along with sleeping hammocks, agents also found packaged food, a machete and a tarp.
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Still in Baraúna, the Acreans spent their first days as fugitives in the house of a surrendered couple where, under threats, they managed to find shelter for seven days. The owner of the house told the police that he was surprised by the duo when he was at home with his wife. The meeting took place in the early hours of February 17, already on the fourth day of searching for the bandits. The man explained that the two broke down the door, but did not hurt the family. “They asked us to remain calm and that nothing would happen if we did what they asked,” he said.
The two hid in holes to escape the PF drones/Photo: Reproduction
In addition to 4 others who were with the fugitives during the recapture, 5 others had already been arrested, suspected of helping the duo externally, including the brother of one of the two fugitives, who was arrested by the Integrated Force to Combat Organized Crime in Acre.
