The São Paulo Civil Police arrested on the morning of Monday (6) another suspect of involvement in the Murder of former São Paulo Civil Police General Ruy Ferraz Fontes. The name of the man was not disclosed.
According to information from the São Paulo Public Security Secretariat, The arrest took place in the region of Cotia, in Greater São Paulo. This is the fifth suspect arrested for involvement in the case.
The former delegate Ruy Ferraz Fontes was murdered on September 15 in the city of Praia Grandeon the coast of São Paulo, in a neighborhood near the city hall and the municipality forum. Safety cameras images showed his car at high speed until overthrown between two buses while trying to enter an avenue.
The images show that the car that chased him arrives shortly after, hits one of the buses and jump three men with rifles. Two move to Ruy’s car and shoot. On the escape, they returned on the same avenue used in the persecution.
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Ferraz has been delegated for over 40 years, having gone through the Homicide Division of the State Department of Homicide and Personnel Protection (DHPP), as well as being held by the 1st Police Station of the Narcotics Investigation Division of the State Department of Narcotrafficking (DENARC) of the 5th Bank Department Investigation Police Station of the State Department of Criminal Investigations (Deic). and commanded other police stations and divisions in the capital.
He was also director of the Capital Judicial Police Department (Decap) and was at the head of the São Paulo State Police Station. Ferraz was responsible for the arrest of leadership of the First Command of the Capital (CCP) in the 2000s, when he worked on the repression of bank robbery, and also as a general delegate, a role he held until 2022. After retiring, he took over the Praia Grande Secretariat of Administration (January 2023), remaining in the management started in 2025 with Mayor Alberto Mourão.
