Source: Ifolha - POLICE - 02/10/2010

The judge of the 3rd federal court of São José do Rio Preto, Wilson Pereira Júnior, although he accepted the complaint, on the same day, granted provisional freedom to the five accused of smuggling and embezzlement who were caught with a cart loaded with contraband cigarettes, possibly from Paraguay.

It is said that the decision came out in the late afternoon of Friday, 1st of October, around 17 pm.

As a result, the four accused, who were imprisoned in the public jail in Severínia, were released at the end of the afternoon, according to jailer Carvalho.

The woman, as confirmed by the registrar Luiz, from the Olímpia Police Station, left the Jaborandi Female Prison at around 21 pm.

Driver José Wilmar Mota, Odair Antônio Siqueira, José Adalto Chaves de Oliveira and Cesari Olmos Júnior were released, who were in the Severínia jail and Miriam Aparecida Lucas, Olmos Júnior's wife, who was in Jaborandi.

As we recall, the Military Police seized approximately 35 packages of smuggled cigarettes from Paraguay, in rural Olimpia.

The occurrence of misdemeanor and conspiracy was recorded on Sunday, the 26th, at the São Francisco farm, in the rural neighborhood Água Parada, in the rural Lambari region.

It is reported that 780 boxes were seized, each containing 50 packages of cigarettes of different brands, possibly originating in Paraguay, in addition to a personal computer, three cell phones, a red Scannia 113, with AHL 1943 plates, from Guairá, Paraná; a white tipper trailer, plate ALJ 2764, also from Guairá, Paraná; a Fiat Fiorino with plates ALJ 2764, from Rio Preto; a Kombi plates BFW 9909, by Barretos; and a Van plates BXN 9144, by Olímpia.

Still at Olmos Júnior's residence, the police found another 280 packages of cigarettes. All were taken to the police station where police chief João Brocanello Neto fined them in the act, and the men were imprisoned in the public jail in Severínia.

Olmos Júnior's wife, who is pregnant and ill at the police station, was rescued to Santa Casa de Olímpia, where she remained under the escort of a military police officer, for one day, and then was jailed at the Jaborandi Women's Prison.