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| GOIANIA, Goias – A 39-year-old man was arrested Tuesday afternoon, suspected of seducing women on the internet to make money. According to the Civil Police (PC), the cyber-lothario would meet his victims on social networking sites on the web.
Left Broken Hearts (Illustration: agencialvo.com)
GOIANIA, Goias – Senseless soccer violence claimed the life of 17-year-old student Pamella Munike Valpato who was shot in the head on Sunday night, in the Vila Maua neighborhood of Goiania. Police said that the target of the shooting was the boyfriend of the victim who, minutes before the crime, had been involved in a fight between supporters of rival teams Goias and Vila Nova. The boyfriend was not hit.
Pamela Munike Valpato (Photo: G1 Goias)
| GOIANIA, Brazil - “I love Goiania, as a whole,” says Aprigio Moreira, a taxi driver who moved to the city when he was 13 years old. He says that the city's residents are very welcoming and easy to connect with. Moreira spoke with Versanna Carvalho of the G1 network, today, the 78th anniversary of the founding of the city.
Click on image to enlarge (photo: Versanna Carvalho G1)
GOIANIA, Goias – Early Saturday morning, Military Police (PM) arrested two suspected drug traffickers in the Vila Nova area of the capital of Goias state in central Brazil. One of those arrested offered police a U.S. $5,200 bribe to let them go, but the police turned them down, reports terra.com.br.
Bribe turned town (Photo: cenacanadense.blogspot.com)
| GOIANIA, Brazil - The Military Police in Goiás have arrested a man posing as a doctor in the Emergency Hospital Goiânia, said a spokesman for the hospital on Sunday. Police said that he was working in a women's reception ward.
Emergency Hospital Goiania (photo: routenews.com.br)
