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- Businessman arrested for energy meter fraud in Itanhaém; losses exceed R$ 754,000
- Court accepts charges against former deputy TH Joias and four accused of links to Comando Vermelho
- "New Cangaço" Fugitive Captured in São João da Boa Vista After Ten Years on the Run
- Two 'bomb houses' dismantled in Araçatuba and Rio Preto with 50 kg of cannabis
- Flávio Bolsonaro investigated for corruption and money laundering in film financing
- Flávio Bolsonaro investigated for money laundering and corruption linked to Dark Horse film
- Thieves steal weapons from shooting club in Mooca, east São Paulo
- Brazil's Supreme Court investigates Flávio Bolsonaro for corruption weeks before elections
- Man sentenced to 22 years for killing lover at school in Araçatuba (SP)
- Federal Police investigates public funding of biographical film about Bolsonaro
- Leader of Red Command sentenced to 83 years arrested in Espírito Santo
- Leader of international arms trafficking scheme extradited from Argentina to Brazil
- Tax fraud and money laundering of R$ 108m in scrap sector: operation executes warrants in 4 states
- Operation seizes 28 mobile phones and drugs across four Rio de Janeiro prisons
- Rifle and six firearms seized from Deputy Mário Frias's address in Federal Police operation
- Operation Trojan Horse investigates fraud in R$ 5.2 billion tender in Bauru
- Red Command seeks to control Rio's maritime routes to export drugs to Europe and Africa
- Comando Vermelho expands routes to Rio ports and international drug trafficking
- Chamber president in Sumaré arrested for leading drugs trafficking scheme with defined hierarchy
- Mayor of Sumaré's Chamber President arrested on suspicion of financing drug trafficking
- Brazil: Federal Police chief suspended amid institutional crisis
- Supreme Court Minister releases former INSS Solicitor-General indicted for R$ 11.9 million embezzlement
- Drones become standard weapon for organised crime in Latin America, NGO warns
- Operation Trojan Horse targets fraud in R$ 5.2 billion procurement in Bauru
- Italy refuses to enforce sentence of Sicilian mafioso's son convicted of drug trafficking in São Paulo
- "Cabelera" arrested in Cubatão for involvement in kidnapping of lawyer linked to PCC
- Suspect in PCC 'crime tribunal' arrested in Cubatão following lawyer's abduction
- Suspect in femicide in Artur Nogueira is shot and arrested hidden under chicken coop
- Suspect turns himself in and confesses to killing young woman, daughter of police officers in Salvador
- Police officer arrested for feminicide in Embu das Artes following wife's death from gunshot to head
- PM officer arrested on suspicion of feminicide against wife in Embu das Artes
- Man wanted for bodily harm arrested while attempting to hide from police in Santos (SP)
- 15-year-old girl jumps from moving car to escape kidnapping in Rio de Janeiro
- Suspect confesses to shooting daughter of police officers during robbery in Salvador
- Brazil's Supreme Court in crisis: Judge de Moraes under suspicion
- Armed trio invades house in Garça (SP), holds resident hostage and steals 18 firearms from collection
- Man wanted for rape and domestic violence arrested on BR-050 in Uberaba
- Man arrested for assaulting and threatening partner in Presidente Prudente after she refused money for drugs
- 29-year-old man arrested with 7 kg of hashish and revolver on bus on SP-270
- Identity fraud in Brazil rises 32.9%: 2.8 million attempts in six months
- Convicted trafficker from São Paulo arrested in Campina Grande after suspicious behaviour
- Pernambuco ordered to pay R$ 150,000 to young man imprisoned by mistake for nine months
- Doctor charged with manslaughter following judge's death during egg retrieval procedure
- Federal Police request removal of Attorney General Paulo Gonet from Banco Master investigation
- Tarcísio confirms sending evidence to Federal Police on NGO linked to 'Dark Horse'
- Marcola, PCC leader, faces trial by jury for police officer's death 21 years later
- Organised crime in Salvador de Bahia: insecurity weakens Lula ahead of elections
- Federal Police request removal of Brazil's chief prosecutor in investigation linked to Supreme Court
- Judicial Police arrest foreign national wanted by Brazil for murder in Minas Gerais
- Federal Police discover R$ 406 million fraud in heavy machinery tenders in Rio Grande do Sul
- Teenager arrested over gang rape of girl subjected to 'drugs gang tribunal'
- PCC trafficker linked to 'André do Rap' arrested in Guarujá
- Rota police officers became security guards for bus company linked to PCC in SP
- Police destroy medicinal cannabis crop and arrest association members in Itupeva
- Military police officer shot dead during robbery on Marginal Tietê: who was the officer killed in São Paulo
- Vasco player David Corrêa targeted in search over arms and drug trafficking; Santos athlete arrested in São Paulo
- Vasco player David Corrêa targeted in operation against drug and weapons trafficking
- Vasco player investigated for arms and drug trafficking; Santos athlete arrested in São Paulo
- Vasco player David Corrêa targeted in police operation for arms and drug trafficking in Rio de Janeiro
- Vila Nova player targeted in search and seizure operation against drug and arms trafficking