Pernambuco - Tourists on Boat Ride Robbed

by Michael Hone

Four men assault 60 tourists on catamaran in Tamandaré

RECIFE, Pernambuco – About 60 Brazilian and foreign tourists were robbed Wednesday evening during a catamaran outing in Tamandare, along the south coast of Pernambuco, in north-eastern Brazil. According to police, four men in a boat--stolen just before the assault--motored up to the larger tourist vessel and announced the robbery.

Catamaran in Tamandare (photo: g1.globo.com)

$100,000 Stolen from Blasted Open ATM

Victimized ATM had been reloaded the night before

RECIFE, Pernambuco – Thieves blasted open an ATM in the early hours of Saturday in the town of Petrolina, in the interior of the state of Pernambuco. According to police, at least five men participated in the theft and managed to take more than R$100,000 (about U.S. $58,000) from the machine.

Priest Investigates Church Thefts

Five Arrested After Priest Solves Church Burglery

RECIFE, Brazil – Five people were arrested on suspicion of involvement in the robbery of a church in the Maranguape II Paulista neighborhood of Metropolitan Recife, reported O Globo online.

Maranguape II Paulista (photo: vtg-paulista.blogspot.com)

Acquitted of Hiring Man to Kill Her Dad

She was on trial for hiring a hit man to murder her father

CARUARU, Pernambuco– A 44-year-old woman, in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, has been acquitted of hiring a hitman to kill her father who repeatedly raped her over thirty-five years and who impregnated her twelve times, according to court officials.