Brazilian Military Occupy Favelas
Shanty towns in northern Rio de Janeiro were entered and occupied by 300 military police attempting to recover ten rifles and a gun stolen from a barracks hours earlier, Jornal do Brasil informed today.

Hooded thieves attacked Transportation Central, used as a materiel depot by the Eastern Command headquartered in Sao Cristovao, and made the 10 soldiers resting in a guard house surrender their weapons.

According to military intelligence, an ex army corporal is wanted as a suspect in the theft, believed to have been carried out to reinforce drug dealers in Alemao.

The military police deployed in the shanty towns received support from the BOPE special police and the operation was authorized by Marcelo Itagiba, Rio Public Security secretary, at the army´s request.