Justiça · Water-trade extortionBanabuiu water extortion arrest brings investigation's detention tally to 14Escrito 15 de novembro de 2026 às 11:11 UTCVerTranscrição0:00Banabuyu water extortion arrest brings investigations detention tally to fourteen.0:06Residents queued to buy drinking water under police protection in Banabui.0:10Threats had driven merchants to suspend sales.0:13Police have now detained another suspect, bringing the investigation's cumulative0:17tally to fourteen.0:18Can police reach the alleged organizers and keep water sales open without threats?0:22Police arrested a19 year olden S.0:24O.0:25Joe, Odu Piao, on November13,2026 .0:28Civil police teams from Sear and Piao worked together after exchanging intelligence0:32about the investigation into threats against Banabui's mineral water merchants.0:36Police booked him on suspicion of belonging to a criminal organization and placed0:40him at the court's disposal.0:41They say he has a drug trafficking record.0:44They released blurred arrest images without disclosing his name.0:47The investigation's cumulative detention tally has reached fourteen.0:50It includes a man already in prison when police served another warrant.0:53Several arrests involved drug or weapons allegations alongside the extortion0:57inquiry.0:58Each suspect faces their own allegations.1:00The threats reached into an everyday purchase: water to drink.1:03Merchants feared reprisals if they kept selling without the criminal group's1:07permission.1:07As sellers withdrew containers, residents lost their usual places to buy mineral1:11water.1:11A threatening notice called Edatol Banabui began circulating on October19 th.1:16Signed Deritoria de Banabui, it demanded the faction's authorization for selling and1:20distributing water.1:21It warned that people who disobeyed would suffer the consequences.1:24Investigators linked the scheme to Commando Vermelio, a criminal faction.1:28Victims described demands that reached both the businesses selling water and the1:32distributors supplying them.1:33Victims described demands for two hundred reais to keep a business open and seven1:37hundred and fifty reais a week for water sales.1:40Other distributors described one real and fifty centavos per container.1:44These were demands.1:45How much was collected is unknown.1:46The two hundred real demand came without a stated payment schedule.1:50Different victims described different charges.1:52Merchants began taking water containers off sale rather than accepting the extortion1:56and risking retaliation.1:58Authorities began an emergency supply operation on October thirty.2:01First, KGS Ceres Water and Sewer Company provided logistical support, and security2:07forces protected distribution.2:08Residents queued to buy water under police escort.2:11Local merchants resumed water container sales on November4.2:16The disruption hit the mineral water trade and the businesses residents depended on2:20for those purchases.2:21Reopening restored sales, but the investigation continued into the people accused of2:25using threats to control that trade.2:27Subscribe to this channel to follow the search for the alleged organizers and2:31developments affecting water sellers.2:33Officers seized six mobile phones, a thirty-eight caliber revolver, ammunition, a2:37notebook computer, and cash in the first operation.2:40Civil and military police arrested three suspects on October twenty-second,2:44supported by the Civil Police Intelligence Department.2:46The three had reported backgrounds involving drug trafficking and links to loan,2:50sharking among other offenses.2:52Those histories formed part of the investigation.2:54The allegations against them still required a court's judgment.2:57Police arrested another man on November third on suspicion of drug trafficking and3:01investigated possible involvement in regional extortion.3:04Two days later, an integrated operation executed six preventive arrest warrants.3:09Officers captured five suspects and served the sixth warrant inside prison.3:13And Nayo Rafael Silva Severino was the man already incarcerated.3:17The next arrest came on November6 at a rural property in Banabui.3:20Investigators suspected a thirty-year old of storing another Commando Vermelio3:25member's weapons and drugs for distribution in the region.3:27Officers seized a thirty-eight caliber revolver, a thirty-two caliber shotgun, and3:33thirteen rounds of ammunition.3:34They arrested him for unlawful firearm possession or carrying.3:37A judge then ordered preventive detention at his custody hearing.3:41The rural arrest brought the investigation's tally to eleven.3:43Police arrested two brothers on November twelfth, taking it to thirteen.3:47The nineteen-year old's capture in Pyo followed on November thirteenth, bringing the3:51cumulative number to fourteen.3:53The thirty-year old also had a reported record involving threats, an offense3:57involving a minor and traffic offenses.3:59His firearm arrest and the separate extortion investigation show why the detention4:03tally covers people facing different accusations.4:05Police captured one brother, aged twenty-six in Maracana in the Fortaleza4:10metropolitan area.4:11They arrested the other, aged twenty-four in Banabui.4:14Both faced warrants alleging criminal organization membership, and police alleged4:17they belonged to Commando Vermelio.4:19Draco, the organized crime police unit, developed intelligence for the Maracana4:23capture.4:24Banabui Civil Police and Military Police carried out the other arrest.4:27The younger brother had a reported record involving drug trafficking, association4:31for trafficking and unlawful firearm possession or carrying.4:34One suspect sent threats to William Lopes, the police delegate leading the4:38investigation.4:38Seer Public Security Executive Secretary S.4:41Arjo Pereira said the extortion orders came from Rosinia in Rio de Janeiro, where4:45those responsible were hiding.4:47Military police say they maintained daily general patrols, tactical force patrols,4:51and motorcycle teams in Banabui.4:53Specialized interior policing, Rio Rapid response officers and community prevention4:58teams reinforced the local detachment.5:00The latest capture hasn't resolved the search for the alleged organizers.5:04As of November14 th, civil police said the people identified as directly responsible5:08for the extortions remained fugitives in Rio de Janeiro.5:11A court had authorized preventive arrest warrants for them, and investigators were5:15still working to identify and arrest other participants.Ler o artigoCronologia da históriaHeyDex
