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Carlos Eduardo Benevides Gomes, Cabo Benê – one of the 12 killed in the confrontation between police and militiamen on the night of Thursday 15, on BR-101, in Itaguaí – hid violent behavior behind his low profile. Named as one of Wellington da Silva Braga’s militia chiefs and henchman, Ecko, Rio’s most wanted militiaman, Cabo Benê would have fired a rifle in the face of a man who had used Ecko’s name to collect payments . Unauthorized security fee.
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The information is contained in a statement delivered to the Civil Police by André Vitor de Souza Corrêa, Dufaz, a fellow militiaman. Dufaz’s report was instrumental in the conviction of Sergeant Antônio Carlos de Lima, Toinho, Benê’s partner, and 25 other members of the Itaguaí militia in May this year. Benê, a fugitive, has not yet been tried. On February 28, 2019, seven days after the first hearing in the case, Dufaz was executed by the militia.
According to the testimony of Dufaz’s death penalty, Toinho and Benê spearheaded all the activities of the militia “such as extortion, acquisition of firearms, ammunition and equipment, acquisition of cloned vehicles, participating in all the decisions taken.” According to the Civil Police investigation that culminated in the sergeant’s conviction, the two replicated the model of the Campo Grande militia in Itaguaí, in the Baixada, collecting fees from neighbors, killing opponents and exploring the sale of gas, gatonet and alternative transportation.
Twelve dead in the militia convoy
The Civil Police working group, created to combat militia action in Baixada Fluminense, carried out a new action this Thursday. This time, the group, in conjunction with the Federal Highway Police (PRF), intercepted a convoy of militiamen at the PRF Rio-Santos post in Itaguaí. In the action, police officers from the Coordination of Special Resources (Core), in joint action with and the PRF, were attacked by the suspects, who were carrying rifles, machine guns and pistols. Twelve suspects died in the confrontation.
According to the delegate Rodrigo Oliveira, Undersecretary of Planning and Operational Integration of the Civil Police, the convoy was made up of militiamen linked to Danilo Dias Lima, Danilo Tandera. They had been monitored for about 15 days by the intelligence service of the task force, which discovered the frequent movement of criminals on a route that connects the West Zone with the Baixada.
– Before reaching the PRF, there is a detour. In order not to pass in front of the post, they detoured along this secondary road. We were able to set up four or five such operations, but it only happened today. When they took the fork, we closed the secondary road and they were trapped – reports Oliveira.
On Wednesday night, in operation in the region known as Km 32, in Nova Iguaçu, the task force was received with rifle shots. Five deaths were confirmed at the scene. Five semiautomatic pistols, a replica rifle, military uniforms, bulletproof vest, radio communicator and three vehicles were seized. The operation, carried out by civilian police from the Coordination of Special Resources (Core), aimed to verify intelligence information from the Intelligence Secretariat (SSINT), who reported an encounter with at least 40 armed criminals at the scene, all of them linked to the military. Ecko and Tandera would have been at the site.
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