On February 15, nine PM crowded in Tactical Force and 26th Cicom were arrested in operation that was investigating the deviation of half ton of drugs seized in the Mundo Novo neighborhood, in the northern zone of Manaus. The case is already this year this year of the second PM involvement scandal with drug trafficking.
The agents are the Cables Michael Melo, Diego de Araújo, Judah Chaves and Keliton da Silva; Soldiers João Alves and Ewerton Gomes; Sergeants Nelson Ribeiro and Charles Almeida and First Lieutenant Ricardo Martins. Of these, 8 of them are associated with the Tactical Force - PMAM group equivalent to the Paulista Route. Important to highlight the recent involvement of other police officers of the same force in clandestine executions .
The military used a private car and a PM car to transport drugs. Despite the arrests, however, the whereabouts of the diverted narcotics have not yet been identified, suggesting that there may be more involved in the case than the arrested agents. At the time of arrest, about $ 20,000 in cash were also seized.
Other arrests
Still in January 2024, Four PMs were arrested in the 29th Cicom , also accused of diverting about 250 kg of cocaine, valued at $ 6 million. At the time of arrest, these military personnel were also found with about $ 70,000 in kind.
Far from being coincidences, both cases show the patent involvement of the repressive forces of the old state in the region with the groups they say "fight", at the expense of massacres, executions, violations of rights and crimes against the people.