Wiretap reinforces suspicion of PCC involvement in crimes in São Paulo.
In a conversation captured by police and published in the newspaper O Estado de S.Paulo, a drug trafficker gives orders to "beat the cops up"; Military Police continue investigation into the deaths of officers in the capital.
247 – A wiretap revealed in a newspaper report. The State of São Paulo This Tuesday, the 26th, indicates even greater suspicion that the criminal faction PCC – Primeiro Comando da Capital – is linked to the crimes committed against police officers in recent weeks in the city of São Paulo.
In a conversation between a drug dealer from the Cidade Tiradentes neighborhood, in the eastern zone, and a suspect not yet identified by the police, the former says: "Let the boys go beat the cops up." There is also another recording of criminals from the southern zone, from the Paraisópolis neighborhood, in which they say they would collect R$ 300 from each person involved for an attack, which was not identified.
Investigations are ongoing to determine if the deaths of the police officers are related, what exactly the gangs and criminals ordered, and when those orders were issued. According to the police, there is still information to be clarified, but even so, the force has been acting in the affected areas with preventative measures and with the presence of the DEIC – Department of Criminal Investigations – which is the unit responsible for suppressing gang activity.
The report also states that the PCC leadership gained access to the names of the police officers who participated in the ROTA operation on May 29th in the Penha neighborhood, in the eastern zone. In addition to these names, the criminals hired a hacker to obtain the addresses of the police officers, the names of witnesses in the case, a security guard, and the doorman.
This information was seized from a letter in Penitentiary 2 of Presidente Venceslau, in the interior of the state of São Paulo. Roberto Soriano, known as Betinho Tiriça, wrote the letter with the intention of communicating with another prisoner. It contained the names of the three ROTA military police officers who participated in the torture and death of Minhano on the Ayrton Senna highway, suspected of being the reason for the drug traffickers' retaliation against the police.