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| BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil – An unusual story caught our attention this morning: a burglar—clad only in underwear—attempted to rob a bakery in Varginha, about 148 miles south of the state capital, and was arrested after an altercation with the bakery's owner, according to a story on G1.
Nearly nude burglar (photo: g1.globo.com)
| SALVADOR, Brazil – A man was shot dead inside the car he was driving Saturday morning in the Garden of Allah, on the edge of the capital, Salvador. Civil Police (PC) and Military Police (PM) are on the scene investigating the shooting. They have not released any more information about the crime, according to g1.globo.com.
Dead in Garden of Allah (photo: G1.globo.com)
RIO DE JANEIRO – With the help of popular TV host Luciano Huck and Mayor Eduardo Paes, the city inaugurated a new bicycle rental program Friday. The system, developed with the utility company Serttel provides for the installation of 60 bike rental stations in 14 districts in the South Zone to be completed by 13 December, reported O Globo online.
Huck and Paes (photo: terra.com.br)
VITORIA, Espirito Santo – A woman killed her husband with a thrust of a carving knife after catching him red-handed in the company of his mistress, in the Jardim Tropical neighborhood of metropolitan Vitoria, on Thursday, reported the G1 network.
Solange de Oliveira killed husband (photo: G1)
| VITORIA, Brazil – Federal Police (PF) arrested two men with 756 kilos of marijuana in a truck stopped at a gas station in the town of Cachoeiro de Itapemirim, 63 miles south of the Espirito Santo state capital, Vitoria, early Friday morning, reported the G1 network.
756 Kilos of pot (photo: Federal Police/G1)
FLORIANOPOLIS, Santa Catarina – A pregnant woman slipped and fell from the tenth floor of a highrise apartment building in the capital at about 5:30 pm Thursday night. First reports indicate that Daiane Beatriz Maciel, was cleaning windows of an apartment in a highrise building on Esteves Junior Street when she slipped and fell ten floors.
Hospital Governador Celso Ramos (photo: grandefm.com.br
| CURITIBA, Brazil – Federal Police (PF) arrested a 22-year-old man on Wednesday who tried to board a flight in Iguassu Falls with 2.08 kilos of hashish on his person. According to the PF, the drug was divided into packages bound to his legs, hidden under his pants.
Hashish bound to legs (photo: Federal Police)
PALMAS, Tocantins – Thursday afternoon at 4:45 parishioners at House of Mary Queen of Peace catholic church were waiting for mass to begin when they heard shots ring out. Outside, Antônio Araújo Costa Filho, a bureaucrat at the Court of Justice, and three-time mayoral candidate in the town of Araguacema, lay in the street bleeding, according to an article on ojornal.net.
Attempted political assassination in Tocantins
CURITIBA, Parana – The city of Paranagua expects to inaugurate the new U.S. $3 million Aquário Marinho de Paranaguá, which is nearing completion, in February of 2012. Originally scheduled for opening in July of this year, delays in construction necessitated pushing back the opening date of the 24,000 square foot facility until February.
New Marine Aquarium Paranagua (photo: riknaidques.blogspot.com)
GOIANIA, Goias – Two women were arrested Tuesday afternoon in Goiania, and police are looking for two others, for conspiring to fake a kidnapping. According to the Special Criminal Investigation Police (DEIC), the women intended to extract a ransom from the husband of the false kidnap victim, a Spaniard with whom she lived for a year in Brazil.
Under arrest for fake kidnapping (photo: g1.globo.com)
FORTALEZA, Ceara – Civil Narcotics Police on Tuesday afternoon arrested a gang accused of trafficking drugs and renting weapons to criminals for use in robberies and killings. News of the raid, in the Luciano Cavalcante neighborhood of Fortaleza, was reported on various media sites.
Seized guns and cash (photo: jangadeiroonline.com.br)
MANAUS, Amazonas – Several neighborhoods of South Central Zone, Midwest and West of the Amazonian capital, Manaus, were hit by a hailstorm at around 4:30 Tuesday afternoon, reported authorities.
Hail in the Amazon (photo: Antonio Lopes)
CURITIBA, Parana – Federal Police (PF) in Iguassu Falls seized 1.7 tons of drugs Tuesday afternoon after pulling over a van containing cargo from Paraguay. The three Paraguayans in the van did not have importation documentation for the boxes in the van, prompting police to intensify the inspection which led to the discovery of the marijuana.
1.7 Tons of Marijuana (photo: terra.com/Federal Police)
| Brasilia – The House of Representatives approved on Tuesday, in extraordinary session, bill 3443/2008 amending legislation that deals with money laundering in Brazil. The main change is the decoupling of the crime of laundering from the source of the money being washed.
Brazilian Congress (photo: amatra13.org.br)
RECIFE, Pernambuco – Public transportation in greater Recife may never be the same after this year. By the middle of 2012, real-time information, on a bus-by-bus basis, throughout the metropolitan Recife area, will be available on smartphone screens, announced the governor on Tuesday.
Smartphones display live transit info (photo: TV Globo)
CURITIBA, Parana – A couple was arrested transporting 58 kilograms of crack cocaine in the early hours of Tuesday, near the town of Cascavel in western Parana. According to the Federal Highway Police (PRF), the drugs were hidden in the backseat of the car that was traveling towards the capital on highway BR-227.
58 Kilos crack (photo: Federal Highway Police)
BRASILIA – Federal Police announced the arrest of a woman late Monday afternoon at Juscelino Kubitschek International Airport in Brasília carrying 745 clothing buttons stuffed with cocaine. The woman, of Moroccan nationality, carried the buttons hidden inside her suitcase. Police discovered the drugs during a routine screening.
Cocaine hidden in buttons (photo: Federal Police)
| SALVADOR, Brazil – Six months after receiving transplanted adult stem cells in Salvador, former Military Policeman Major Mauricio Ribeiro took his first, tentative steps. He fell off a roof and spent the last nine years without any movement from the waist down, reported the G1 network on Tuesday.
Policeman takes first steps after 9 years paralysis (photo: g1.globo.com)
| 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)
SAO PAULO – Police arrested a young man over the weekend in Americana, 71 miles from the capital, after he broke into a vegetable stand to steal fruits, vegetables, eggs and a chicken. After gathering his booty, he found a bottle of rum beside a chair and apparently decided to rest and have a drink.
Americana, Sao Paulo, Brazil
RECIFE, Pernambuco – The Brazilian Institute of Environmental and Natural Resources (IBAMA) fined the company Imperio do Forro de Bolso, the Pernambuco textile company responsible for importing tons of medical waste from the United States, about U.S. $3.4 million dollars. The company that owns the ship that brought the two containers seized at the Port of Suape on 11 and 13 October, Hamburg Sud, was fined about U.S. $1.12 million dollars.
photo: Beto Oliveira/AE
BLUMENAU, Santa Catarina – The organizers of the Oktoberfest in Blumenau announced on Monday that attendance at the 28th edition of the event, which began on October 6th and ended on Sunday, reached 563,925 people. The event, held each year in German Village, attracted more visitors than had been expected by the organizing committee which projected an attendance of 550,000.
Click image to enlarge (Photo: Eraldo Schnaider)
MANAUS, Amazonas – President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff and former President Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva, joined the governor of Amazonas, Omar Jose Abdel Azziz in attending the inauguration of the Black River Bridge on Monday, 24 October. The 3.5 km bridge, which cost more than one billion reals (about U.S. six hundred million dollars), connects the capital of Amazonas, Manaus to its neighbor across the river, Iranduba.
Click image to enlarge (Photo: Chico Batata)
