A Minas Gerais court ordered the immediate transfer of Douglas de Azevedo Carvalho, known as Mancha, to a maximum security prison in Belo Horizonte after a custody hearing on March 18.
The judge ordered the immediate transfer of 34-year-old Douglas de Azevedo Carvalho, known as Mancha, to a maximum security prison in Belo Horizonte. The decision followed confirmation of the legality of his preventive detention during a custody hearing on Wednesday, March 18. The case files were sent to the 4th Criminal Court for Drugs, Organized Crime, and Money Laundering in Belo Horizonte. The Minas Gerais Penitentiary Department and the State Secretariat of Justice and Public Security (Sejusp) must take urgent measures to ensure the prisoner's security. The Federal Police (PF) and Minas Gerais Civil Police (PCMG) arrested Mancha on March 15 in Santa Cruz de La Sierra, Bolivia. He is identified as a leader of the Tropa do Douglas (TDD), or Tropa da Doideira faction, active in Belo Horizonte and allied with the PCC and other criminal groups. Mancha had been on the Ministry of Justice and Public Security's Captura Program wanted list for a year, with an arrest warrant issued by Minas Gerais State Court. On March 17, a PF jet brought him back to Belo Horizonte. In 2024, Mancha was arrested and released to house arrest with an electronic ankle monitor. He escaped from Escarpas do Lago in central Minas Gerais by placing the monitor on a monkey and releasing it near a reservoir. During Operation Glote, led by Belo Horizonte's Special Operations Police Station (Deoesp), about R$ 600 million in Mancha's assets were blocked, including 21 vehicles, 24 properties, and funds in fictitious companies and straw accounts. Seventeen people were arrested for belonging to the organization. Minas Gerais Federal Police Superintendent Richard Murad stated: “the arrest of a trafficker with such influence in the country's criminal milieu, who operated selling drugs with various factions, is a victory against organized crime.”
