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| BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil – On Friday, guards at Presídio Sebastião Satiro Prison caught a prisoner returning from furlough stuffed with 50 balloons of narcotics. The man, Ildo Francisco Souto, 35, was taken to an area hospital where an x-ray image confirmed the presence of the balloons in the his digestive tract.
Swallowed Balloons of Narcotics (Photo: patoshoje.com.br)
| VITORIA, Brazil – Miss Brazil 2010, Debora Lyra, who was involved in a serious automobile accident on Tuesday, remains in the ICU of the Unimed Hospital in Vitoria. A medical update was released on Friday advising that Debora is stable, lucid, breathing without the aid of a respirator and feeding orally. Debora will undergo further testing and remain under clinical observation in the ICU.
Debora Lyra Miss Brazil 2010 (Photo: top-beautiful-woman.blogspot.com)
| SAO PAULO – Staff at the Primate Sanctuary in Sorocaba, Sao Paulo, hope that 2012 will be a special year for Jimmy the Chimpanzee, who has a new companion. Jimmy, who suffered maltreatment at the Niteroi Zoo in Rio de Janeiro, arrived at the sanctuary four months ago.
Jimmy the Chimp (Photo: G1 SP)
| SAO PAULO – A prison inmate on temporary leave for the New Year holiday was shot 11 times and survived on Friday afternoon, in Piracicaba, 159 km (99 miles) from Sao Paulo.
Illustration Only (Photo: amigosdaguardacivil.blogspot.com)
| PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil – Police in the city of Canoas are looking for an 18-year-old man who is suspected of robbing a radio station Wednesday night. Announcer Dari Oliveira Filho, 57, was on air when the suspect entered the studio and ended up being assaulted when he tried to intervene. About R$1,000 ($600 USD) in electronic equipment was taken.
Dari Oliveira Filho on-air (Photo: CS FM Radio/Diario de Canoas)
| SAO PAULO – The runner up in the Best Butt Brazil 2011 beauty pageant, Graciella Carvalho, chose more modest photos than the winner to promote her upcoming spread in Sexy magazine. Nobody can really complain, though.
Graciella Carvalho (Photo: Folha de Sao Paulo)
| RIO DE JANEIRO – Military Police Sergeant Luiz Fernando Conceição Filho, 46, yesterday won the photo contest “Rediscovering Downtown Rio,” sponsored by the City of Rio.
Woman with Vase Fountain (Photo: Luiz Fernando Conceição Filho/Folha de Sao Paulo)
| JOAO PESSOA, Brazil – Late Wednesday, police in Campina Grande, 130 km (81 miles) from the capital, caught an 11-year-old boy driving a bus.
Paraiba Bus – for illustration only (Photo: busesworldwide.org)
| FORTALEZA, Brazil – Two Dutch women, 21 and 22, were arrested early Thursday by Federal Police (PF), while trying to board a flight while carrying 8 kg of pure cocaine. The suspects were in possession of two suitcases with 8.162 kg (18 lbs) of pure cocaine hidden in false linings.
Cocaine hidden in Suitcase (Photo: PF-CE/G1 CE)
| SAO PAULO – A resident of Campo Limpo Paulista got quite a scare on Thursday morning, when leaving for work, he came face to face with a jaguar in his garage. Frightened, the resident went back inside and called the Municipal Guard (GM) and firefighters.
Jaguar in Garage (Photo: G1 SP)
| SAO PAULO – State government health officials announced today, that as of Friday, there will be aggressive enforcement of the new law banning alcohol sales to minors. There will be sweeps in bars, restaurants, nightclubs and beach kiosks. Violators are subject to fines of up to R$87,00 reals ($47,000 USD) as well as other sanctions.
Sao Paulo Now Bans Alcohol Sales to Minors (Photo: terra.com.br)
| SAO PAULO – Rosana Freitas, voted owner of Brazil's most beautiful bottom this year, posed beside the pageant's runner up, Graciella Carvalho in a Sao Paulo studio. The Miss Best Butt Brazil 2011 contest took place earlier this month at a Sao Paulo nightclub.
Rosana Freitas & Graciella Carvalho (Photo: terra.com.br)
| VITORIA, Brazil – The health status of Miss Brazil 2010 Debora Lyra is stable after undergoing successful surgery for cervical spinal fusion. The procedure took place at Estadual São Lucas Hospital in Vitoria, and lasted about four hours on Wednesday afternoon.
Miss Brazil 2010 (Photo: Roberto Vazquez/ Futura Press/ G1 Archive)
| CAMPO GRANDE, Brazil – On Friday, Arnaldo Carvalho, 34, lost in seconds, a R$120,000 ($64,000 USD) and 14-year investment restoring an American muscle car. The massage therapist and tattoo artist, from the state capital, totaled his beloved 1970 Mercury Cougar last Friday, in a traffic collision involving another vehicle at an intersection in Campo Grande.
Arnaldo Carvalho and his 1970 Mercury Cougar (Photo: Arnaldo Carvalho archive/G1 MS)
| ANTWERP, Belgium – Wednesday morning, shipping company employees near Antwerp discovered about 300 kg (661 lbs) of pure cocaine shipped from Brazil. The cocaine, worth an estimated €11 million euros ($14.2 million USD), was hidden in a shipment of shoe polish which arrived at the port of Antwerp, in northern Belgium, this week.
300 kilos Pure Cocaine (Photo: deredactie.be)
| PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil – Images from a CCTV security camera vividly show the cold-blooded murder of a businessman on Monday, in southern Brazil. The 51-year-old construction contractor was shot two times in the back, in the town of Feliz, Rio Grande do Sul, where he lived.
Businessman about to be murdered (Photo: RBS TV/G1 RS)
| VITORIA, Brazil – An accident occurred on Tuesday afternoon in Guarapari, Espirito Santo, leaving Debora Moura Lyra, Miss Brazil 2010 seriously injured. The head-on crash happened during foul weather in Guarapari, on the BR-101 highway, about 50 km (31 miles) from the state capital, Vitoria.
Debora Moura Lyra (Photo: terra.com.br)
| SALVADOR, Brazil – In a mega-operation, called 'Velocity-5', held between December 21st and 24th, police in Bahia made the largest marijuana seizure ever in the Northeast. Civil Police (PC) presented the details of the operation at a news conference on Monday afternoon.
Operation Velocity-5 (Photo: d24am.com)
| FORTALEZA, Brazil – Early Tuesday morning, Federal Police (PF) seized 50,000 ecstasy tablets at the Pinto Martins International Airport in Fortaleza. According to the PF, this is the largest ever seizure of the drug in the Northeast of the country.
50,000 Ecstasy Tabs (Photo: PF CE/G1 CE)
| CUIABA, Brazil – Police on Sunday morning caught a 26-year-old man trying to trade places with his brother, 27, an inmate in the Mata Grande Penitentiary. The incident took place during a family visit on Christmas morning. The prison is located in Rondonopolis, 210 km (130 miles) from the state capital, Cuiaba.
Mata Grande Prison (Photo: agoramt.com.br)
| CAMPO GRANDE, Brazil – A 28-year-old man pleaded guilty to public obscenity on December 12th, after police caught him wearing only ladies panties in public. The court in Maracaju, 160 km (99 miles) from Campo Grande, imposed a fine of R$300 reals (about $162 USD).
Man in Panties (Photo: Maracaju Speed/G1 MS)
