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| PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil – A court in the State of Rio Grande do Sul sentenced a man to prison for beating his dog to death with an iron bar. The court sentenced the man to five months and ten days imprisonment and fined him.
Guilty! (photo: dreamstime.com)
RIO DE JANEIRO – A woman was arrested Tuesday morning suspected of murdering her husband in the Morro do Fallet favela, or slum, in the Santa Teresa area of Rio.
Murder in Morro do Fallet (photo: Meia Hora)
SAO PAULO - Six people, including a lawyer, were arrested by Civil Police (PC) in Aracatuba early on Tuesday, accused of belonging to a drug trafficking group operated by the First Capitol Command (PCC) gang.
SAO PAULO, Brazil – A Bolivian couple has been arrested allegedly utilizing slave labor in a sweatshop they owned on Three Rivers Street in the Bom Retiro neighborhood of the capitol. The man is 34-years-old and his wife.
SAO PAULO, Brazil – A 17-year-old was arrested after burglarizing a bakery in Suzano, in Metropolitan Sao Paulo yesterday.
BRASILIA - Between May and early September, the government collected 22,200 firearms across the country, according to a report issued by the National Campaign for Disarmament released Monday by the Ministry of Justice.
BELO HORIZONTE, Minas Gerais – A woman suffered burns over 50% of her body after her ex-husband set her ablaze following a quarrel on Sunday night, in Ituana.
BLUMENAU, Brazil – The pavilions where this famous Oktoberfest is scheduled to begin early next month were affected by flooding in the Vale do Itajai. Also affected were almost one million people the the State of Santa Catarina.
Blumenau Floods (photo: terra.com.br)
BELEM, Brazil – The city of Sao Sebastiao da Boa Vista, on the Marajo Archipelago, in the State of Para saw some tense moments Saturday night. According to an article on O Globo online, angry residents stormed and torched the 9th Military Police Battalion. The group also ransacked and looted the Civil Police station in the city.
SAO PAULO, Brazil – In the first arrest by Military Police, inside the University of Sao Paulo campus since the end of the military dictatorship 26 years ago, a 23 year old valet was taken into custody for robbing two people, reports O Globo online.
