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A 10-year-old boy was apprehended by the Military Police in Manaus (AM), with a bag in which he carried more than 150 portions of narcotics. It was discovered after police officers received a series of complaints about the sale of drugs near the street where he was. Police came to the scene and spotted two people suspiciously. One of the individuals held a bag. When they noticed the presence of the police, the pair tried to escape, but one of them, who was the boy, was detained. Inside the bag, police found 127 packs of marijuana, 35 oxy-type, 6 portions of cocaine, 100 grams of oxy-stone, and a precision scale. The amount of BRL 312 was found with the boy, who was eventually taken by the police to the Specialized Police Station for the Determination of Infringing Acts

A couple carrying two boxes of chicken eggs were expelled by militants from the PT (Workers' Party) of Santos Andrade Square, in the center of Curitiba, where the caravan of former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT) around the South region of Brazil. Entrepreneur Fabio Monroe, 44, and commercial manager Rosângela Araújo, 47, were forced to leave the square under threat from PT militants who said "bourgeois here, no." One of them poured water on the couple. Asked about what they were doing in the act with the boxes of eggs Monroe replied: "If they are doing their democratic exercise, we also want to. Eggs are to do what the people of Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina have done in the last few days." Lula and his caravan were greeted with eggs in almost every city they passed through in the caravan that ends today after nine days. The couple came to the police after the expulsion, but the police said they couldn't do anythi...

A resident of the city of Caceres, Mato Grosso, went to the police station to register a bulletin of occurrence (BO) against his wife for recurring betrayals.   In the record, he says that he has already witnessed several betrayals and that he even caught his wife in bed with another man. The man also said that he tried to contain the betrayal by damaging the woman's bicycle so she would not leave the house.   The document was classified as "atypical nature", which isn't considered a crime by the police. The complainant should to appear at the police station later this week to explain the offensive terms that were used in the description of the fact. There is no information on the names of those involved in the case.

On the morning of March 8, the Civil Police executed an operation against a Chinese mafia, which resulted in the arrest of 14 people in the cities of São Paulo and Guarujá. The investigations against this group, were started after an occurrence of three homicides of Chinese people, in the city of São Paulo. According to Elisabete Sato, a delegate responsible, "During the investigations, were discovered the practice of other crimes, such as cases of extortion, kidnapping, trafficking in women, exploitation, games, in short, a range of activities that give reasons to arrest". According to the State Department of Public Security (SSP), detainees and victims belong to the Chinese province of Fujian. When they arrived in Brazil, they went to the electronics trade and another to the two factions operating in the central part of the city, extorting money from their compatriots to offer protection and practice other crimes. "When people refused to pay, they were beate...

An unusual image comes reverberating on social networks and is already one of the most talked about issues in Brazil. In the town of Bacabal, in Maranhão state, the bandits not forgive the innocent children. A little boy of 7 years old who sells "geladinho" (a kind of popsicle) was robbed. The bandits stole BRL 11 and six "geladinhos" that he had not yet sold. Terrified, the boy arrived crying in a battalion of military police, where the policemens, moved by the situation, donated their money for the boy. The child had fear of be punished by his mother, if came home without money and without the popsicles. In according with the newspaper Folha de Parnaíba , the police doesn't have track of the accused. Moment that the child reported the assault to the policeman

Police arrested on 6 October, the teenager's biological father who gave hazelnut cream poisoned for his daughter in Cangaiba, a neighborhood in the East Zone of São Paulo. After eating the candy, on 27 September, six students that were friends of his daughter, got sick and had to be hospitalized. The criminal, Mason Leoncio Fernandes dos Santos, is appointed by the police as the main suspect of having poisoned the product. According to the police investigation department, he would have done it because he don't want recognize the paternity of her daughter. The girl who was the target of poisoning, however, not ingested the sweet and only shared with friends. Leoncio was arrested temporarily for 30 days. Police began to investigate Mason after Kaíque Vicente de Oliveira, appointed as responsible for delivering the hazelnut cream to adolescents, snitched he. Police arrived to Kaíque, 21, after meeting  testimonials of relatives and send the candy to expertise. Th...

In the last Sunday (11 September), the inhabitant of Valdete Groff Azevedo received the news that outlaws literally led to his family home in the central area of ​​Cidreira, in the south region of Brazil. An occurrence was registered on Tuesday (13) at the local police station. The delegate Alexandre Souza is already investigating the unusual case and some suspects have already been identified. The surprise of the police to record the occurrence was that it was the theft of an entire house. Valdete received a call from a neighbor, when she was on the beach and he reported on the arrival of some bricklayers on site. She was surprised because they were not doing works, but she didn't care with the fact. "I only believed when I saw personally. I was so sad as surprise. At what level the crime arrived. I've never seen it. It's unbelievable", reported Valdete. The house before the robbery According to the neighbor of the family, two men arrived a...

Journalists and Chinese athletes stayed stuck among a shooting on the morning of Thursday, as they passed by the Yellow Line, two kilometers from the Tom Jobim International Airport. Four armed men shot at a military police vehicle. According to information from the 21th Police Department (in the Bonsucesso neighborhood), one of the shots hit the bus door, but no one was injured. Through Twitter, the portal " Global Times " published photos that were taken at the time of exchange of fire. Street vendors selling goods on the road lay on the ground to try to protect the shots. Journalists and athletes were heading to the village of Athletes in separate buses. The Civil Police reported that there's no reference in the record of casualties or involvement of Olympic delegation.

Car where the New Zealand's tourist was held hostage The Military Police (PM) arrested two military police officers who kidnapped and extorted the New Zealand's fighter jiu-jitsu, Jason Lee. The crime happened last Saturday (July 23), in Duque de Caxias, in the metropolitan area of ​​Rio de Janeiro, when the athlete was returning from a competition. According to the advisory press of the corporation, the case is being determined and if any misconduct proved, the two cops will be subject to administrative disciplinary proceedings and may be expelled. The PM said that "does not tolerate misconduct and acts like this sadden the nearly 50,000 honest police officers fighting crime every day," the statement said. Through its social network, Jason said officers approached him and threatened him with arrest if he didn't get in the police car. The New Zealander, who lives ten months in Rio, also said that the police took him to ATMs, for him to take m...

A family was chased and beaten by taxi drivers on the night of May 31 in Brasilia, after being mistaken for Uber drivers. The episode occurred when four brothers landed in the Juscelino Kubitschek International Airport and followed by car to Ceilândia, a nearby city. The Civil Police investigates the case. According to one of the victims, a taxi driver closed his car and after the collision, pretended he would "solve" the situation. The family was surrounded and attacked, despite the protests that were not Uber drivers. "When we pulled up, more than 50 taxi drivers have arrived at the car, breaking the car glass, knocking on people, and shouting, 'Kill that is Uber, death to the Uber', then I talked about: 'We are a family, we are coming trip, don't, don't', said one of the victims. Sticker says "I'm not a Uber driver" The case was registered at the 10th Police Station and one of the attackers recognized by ph...

Submarine seized by police: drug trafficking The Pará State Police is investigating the responsible for the construction of a submarine that was seized in the November 16 near a fishing village located in northeastern of Pará. The suspicion is that the construction was financed by Colombians linked to a cocaine trafficking scheme. The police said the submarine structure is about 17 meters long, 3 meters in diameter and about 4 meters high, with a capacity to carry a load of up to 30 tons and carry 30 people. Seized cargo: materials for drug refining According to the investigations of the police, the responsible for building settled in the area since September and held an ostensive vigilance not to allow entry of people. Fuel tanks used by the group were found nearby, as well as electronics boxes with inscriptions in Spanish.

Students use helmet for self-protection An unusual scene took place inside a classroom state school Wanda David Aguiar, in Roraima. Students used motorcycle helmets to protect themselves from ceiling fans. The case occurred on the night of March 19, few minutes after a ventilator almost reach students. No one is hurt. Helen Ruth, 20, is the 2nd year student of the school that is in the west zone of Boa Vista city, she told the "Brazil Unknown" that friends decided to wear helmets' by not withstand more live with the risk of injury inside the classroom'. Another student said that besides the precariousness of ceiling fans, the device of air conditioning installed in the classrooms do not work. On the night of Wednesday (20), students also staged a protest in front of the school. They questioned the reforms made at school and the lack of staff to clean the institution. Because of the protest, the school has run classes on the night shift. "Bes...

Man dressed as Batman argues with mayor of São Paulo Due to the increasing wave of violence that swept the Brazilian urban centers, several groups of people began to take justice into their own hands. Fight with bandits on the streets, arrest offenders on poles with chains and lynch the thieves in public places, became common activity in Brazil. To complete, a group of "vigilantes" began to act dressed as American superheroes fighting crime in Brazilian streets and even doing actions that benefit the environment. One of the points worked by public security experts is that these people are fighting spontaneously against crime because the Brazilian government is inefficient and does not have enough structure to educate young people and fight crime at the same time. In the state of São Paulo there is a deficit of about 100,000 police officers, besides the fact that public schools not form honest citizens due to little investment the federal government in educatio...

ATM destroyed by the gang in São José do Rio Pardo at dawn A young burglar died after blasting an ATM inside the building of the Prefecture of Vargem Grande do Sul (SP). The police knew not report the value of money taken by the gang that two hours before also exploded another ATM inside a supermarket in São José do Rio Pardo (SP). For the police, at least five men participated in both actions. No one was arrested. The ATM was inside a shop in San Antonio neighborhood. The suspects arrived in two pickup trucks and a car at around 1:00 am. Police said that the equipment was already broken, so it is still not possible to know if there was money or not the terminal. The supermarket had been closed, went through expertise and was released for the owner to carry out the cleaning of the site. Gang broke into Prefecture to explode ATMs in Vargem Grande do Sul Two hours later the same gang traveled 33 kilometers and attacked a ATM that sits inside the building of Prefectur...

Brazilian website that helps prevent car thefts Residents of the city of Belém, state of Pará, adopted alternatives to avoid the assaults, and the Internet has been a tool in the prevention of crimes. One is the site "Where was robbed", built collaboratively to netizens mark on an interactive map the points where they were victims of thefts, robberies and car break-ins. The population believes that initiatives such as "Onde Fui Roubado" (Where was robbed) can be very effective to prevent assaults. Some sites like "B.O Coletivo" (Collective police report) also allow the analog record of events: accessing the page, the user can print a poster to indicate where he was robbed. Another application used by smartphone owners is "Waze", which uses the phone's GPS to display routes in the city, allowing the surfer mark points of interest as hazardous locations and stretches where there is visible policing.

Police attack young man with a skateboard It wasn't enough all the aggressiveness with which the Brazilian police treat the population in the last years with rubber bullets and tear gas, police in the state of São Paulo started beating people with other objects such as rocks and even a skateboard. In January, during a manifestation against the increase in bus fares, the state police surrounded a group of protesters who were unarmed and protesting peacefully. After beating in the people with sticks and rubber bullets, cowardly attacked a young man that was isolated from the group, applying blows to the boy's head with a skateboard. The governor was approached by newspapers and magazines but gave no explanation of the fact.

Police car for sale at auction Cars of the Civil Police and Military Police of São Paulo are being auctioned by the state the same way they were during the service. That is, characterized in corporate colors and markings for police departments, second a news story of Jornal da Band. A vehicle in these conditions costs around US $ 4,000, are sold legally and the buyer would have no obligation to change the paint or vehicle characteristics, because the car already out of the auction with all documentation in order. From a legal point of view, who concludes and buys a former police car isn't outside the law, but it would be the very state that is selling the vehicles of wrongly way. The vehicles couldn't be auctioned, as well, for they might be totally uncharacterized to be then sold to ordinary consumers. The problem is that these vehicles removed from service and apparently auctioned with the same look when they were still active, can favor organized crime, ...