The Civil Police (PC) launched this Thursday (18) a mega-operation that had greater than 300 cops to combat a prison group accused of homicides and drug trafficking in Salvador and the Metropolitan Area (RMS). Referred to as Operation Licuri, the motion resulted within the loss of life of two leaders of drug trafficking within the neighborhoods of Rio Sena and Liberdade. Eric Jeferson Santos Souza, higher referred to as Mad Max, chief of drug trafficking in Rio Sena and Liberdade, and Antônio Carlos de Oliveira Santos, higher referred to as Coquito or Coquinho, exchanged fireplace with the police and have been killed in clashes.
In accordance with the Civil Police, Mad Max was hit whereas resisting the execution of the arrest warrant. He was routed to the Suburb Hospital, however he could not resist. Mad Max was the creator and mastermind of a number of murders. Coquinho was the reference for the identify of the operation. He was the visitors supervisor on the River Seine and managed the weapons for assaults towards rival teams. The suspect died in a confrontation with cops from the Coordination of Particular Operations (COE).
The Civil Police was approached by CORREIO to supply particulars on the age of each and inform which factions they acted for, however mentioned it didn’t have another data than that disclosed. In a word printed within the morning, the director of the DHPP, delegate Andréa Ribeiro, had mentioned that every one the targets of the operation have been concerned in recurrent assaults within the areas the place they operated and had handed by way of the police.
Within the steadiness of the operation, up to date on the finish of the afternoon of Thursday (18), the PC reported that 11 suspects have been situated, three of which clashed with the police and didn’t resist their accidents. 30 search and seizure warrants have been additionally executed. Weapons have been additionally seized in the course of the operation and will likely be examined by the Technical Police Division (DPT).
“Through the investigation, we found that the group was shopping for weapons on the border between Brazil and Paraguay. The targets reached are extraordinarily harmful and can assist the DHPP to set off new investigations into the group”, defined the director of the DHPP, delegate Andréa Ribeiro.
One of many prisoners can also be being investigated for committing crimes towards property. He, who was arrested in Rio Sena, is recognized as a member of a prison group that operates by stealing cell telephones at massive events, together with the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. Along with Rio Sena, Operation Licuri happened within the Curuzu, Alto da Terezinha, Praia Grande, Sete de Abril, Sussuarana, Uruguay, Ilha Amarela, Plataforma, Itapuã neighborhoods, within the municipality of Simões Filho and within the metropolis of São Paulo.
Police from the DHPP, the Metropolitan Police Division (Depom), the Division for Repression and Combating Organized Crime (Draco), the Division for Crimes Towards Property (DCCP) and the Coordination of Particular Operations (COE) participated within the operation, along with of garrisons from Rondesp, Choque, Bope, Gêmeos and Cipe Polo, from the Army Police.
