He was arrested in full match while whistling the final of a local football championship, in São Paulo. The order was given by the Criminal Court of Guarujá.
Ederson Carlos da Silva, 38, was arrested in the middle of the local final in GuarujáSao Paulo. He was a fugitive for his alleged role as a cocaine storage in a dismantled criminal organization after the discovery of 450 kilos of drugs.
The arrest occurred on June 22 while Da Silva served as judge of the party, in compliance with a preventive arrest warrant issued by justice. According to Portal G1, the defendant would be part of the logistics used by a criminal organization to store large amounts of cocaine in rented properties, since the drug was later distributed to different parts of the country.
The case had its starting point with The seizure of 450 kilos of cocaine in Sao Paulo Capitalwhich were transported to Guarujá. On that occasion, the authorities arrested the driver of the truck that carried the load and an escort, which allowed to identify other members of the group, including Silva.
“According to his history and everything we could find out, he worked as a foreman in a company. We did not know that he arbitrated matches,” said Eduardo Camargo Lima, delegate of the Narcotics Research Unit. The track that allowed its whereabouts arose from trade union records and sports associations, which linked it to arbitration activity.
Search and capture
Last November, the police arrested five other men who belonged to the criminal organization, one of whom used tapioca bags (cassava -derived starch) as camouflage. The rest of the band members, including Ederson, could not be located and settled in the list of searched by the Department of Justice.
“According to his history and everything we could find out, he worked as a foreman in a company. We had no information to arbitrate football matches. As we did not find it, we look for it and then the people of Guarujá managed to stop him, “Lima explained.
The head of the Guarujá police station, Glaucus Vinícius Silva, told journalists that the referee could be located because he was attached to unions and associations, so that He had public exhibition. Their traces allowed officials to compare their data with those of the National Bank for Criminal and Prison Measures.
Source: Ambito
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