This Friday morning (27), the Federal Police served five arrest warrants and ten search and seizure warrants against a group suspected of planning prisoner rescues and trying to destabilize the Ceará prison system.
The operation, called DEFCON 3, was conducted by the Ceará Integrated Force to Combat Organized Crime (FICCO/CE) with support from the Penitentiary Administration Secretariat (SAP). The actions were carried out in Fortaleza and Itaitinga, in the metropolitan region of the capital.
This Friday’s operation is an offshoot of Operation DEFCON 4, carried out in November 2023. At the time, a criminal organization was discovered involving attacks on the penitentiary system, including the planning of escapes from prison units.
Goiás
This Friday, the Integrated Force to Combat Organized Crime of the State of Goiás (FICCO/Goiás), together with the State Criminal Police, also works to combat organized crime.
Operation Exitus, which was launched this morning, aims to dismantle a local criminal organization that operates in attempts to rescue prisoners and drug trafficking.
This Friday, police officers are executing 37 court warrants, 24 for search and seizure and 13 for preventive detention, in several cities, including Goiânia, Pirenópolis, Corumbá de Goiás, Cocalzinho de Goiás, Alexânia, Anápolis, Ceilândia (DF), Brasília (DF) and Campo Grande (MS).
The operation is the result of investigations initiated after an attempt to rescue prisoners in November 2023, in the city of Corumbá de Goiás.
This content was originally published in Operations against the rescue of prison faction members take place in CE and GO on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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