SSP-AM changes operation status and missing hunters in Urucará are now considered fugitives

Malu Dacio – from Cenarium Magazine

MANAUS (AM) – Three hunters identified as Ademir Serrão, Valdenir Pantoja Serrão and José Neto, missing since the 5th of this month in the municipality of Urucará (261 kilometers from Manaus), are now considered wanted. The information is from the Amazonas State Public Security Secretariat (SSP-AM).

The SSP-AM reported that against the backdrop of search and rescue, in the municipality of Urucará, the tracks of the three missing indicate escape, according to the report of the teams that were sent to the jungle region. For this reason, the SSP-AM said it changed the status of the operation to search and capture action.

“With the activation of the Integrated Center for Local Command and Control (CICC-L), in Urucará, the security forces, on the ground, surveyed the traces of the missing in the jungle area. The police teams followed traces that were left by the three men, but the details point out that the missing, until then, take care not to be located”, points out the note.

The reason, according to the secretariat, would be because one of the people has a police record, according to a survey conducted by the SSP-AM.

The case will continue to be accompanied by police investigation, in order to locate the lost.

Recall the case

On the last day 5, the trio had gone out hunting in the community of Buçuzal, rural area of the city, but did not return home. Authorities in the region became aware of the situation the next morning, the 6th, when the search began.

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On the 12th, after a week of intense search, without success, the Public Safety Secretary of Amazonas (SSP-AM), general Mansur, sent a team of police reinforcement to the city in order to support the search for the missing.

According to the folder, 14 men, between nine firefighters, three civil police officers, and two agents of the Integrated Department of Air Operations (Dioa), which took the Petrel aircraft to fly over, were deployed to the region where the hunters disappeared.