The Federal Police (PF) triggered today (7) Operation Sicario, to serve three preventive arrest warrants and 17 search and seizure warrants. The targets are accused of involvement with a murder that took place in July 2020, at a gas station in São Gonçalo, in the metropolitan region of Rio.
The homicide would be related to a criminal organization responsible for running illegal gambling in Niterói, São Gonçalo and surrounding municipalities, monopolizing the exploitation of jogo do bicho, slot machines and other bets in the region.
About 120 federal police officers comply with court orders in the city of Rio of January and in the metropolitan region.
According to the PF, two targets of the operation were arrested: the person who ordered the murder and one of the executors. The names have not yet been released.
* Matter amended at 8:59 am to add information
