22/08/2022 – A man was found dead in the Caneleira neighborhood. Civil Police are investigating the case, which is one of the series of executions that have taken place in the Baixada Santista region since July. The man’s body was located on Avenida Francisco Ferreira Canto by a Military Police team that was routinely patrolling. The victim was identified as a civil police officer.
22/08/2022 – A couple was arrested after being caught stealing power wires on Avenida Presidente Wilson, in the Pompeia neighborhood. Around 16h00, teams from the Municipal Civil Guard (GCM) were patrolling when they noticed a couple messing with a public lighting box. While the man tried to cut the wires with a large kitchen knife, the woman was holding a backpack with 1 kg of electrical wires and various types of knives and pliers.
24/08/2022 – A 67-year-old retired teacher fell for the ‘gift scam’ and lost more than R$24,000. The victim said that the delivery man had a gift, just on her birthday. He said she would know who had sent it after she had paid a delivery fee. According to the victim, the man said that after paying a fee of R$ 8.90 – which could not be paid in cash – the machine would show who made the shipment. Two transactions were carried out by criminals on one of the cards in the amounts of R$ 3,999.99 and R$ 4,999.99. On the other card, they were able to make three purchases of R$ 8,999.99; R$ 4,999.99; and R$ 1,010, totaling R$ 24,009.96.
