others have urged the government to redouble its search and rescue efforts. they said 250 men, two helicopters, three drones and 16 boats have been deployed to search for the missing men. a suspect in custody and authorities are testing brlood samples from his boat. in september 2019, an indigenous affairs worker was murdered in the same erarea. violence against indigenous people and people who seek to protect the rainforest is an ongoing issue in the amazon according to a 2019 human rights report, which documented 28 killings, most since 2015. could that violence have caught up to philips and pereira?
Eliesio Morubo, the lawyer for the Union of Indigenous Peoples of the Javari Valley (UNIVAJA), said the judge agreed to keep the fisherman jailed for 30 days because the case involved a possible "heinous crime" such as murder and hiding bodies. State police detectives involved in the investigation have told Reuters they are focusing on poachers and illegal fisherman in the area, who clashed often with Pereira as he organized indigenous patrols of the local reservation.
and now multiple overlapping investigations later, that remains the central question. omar jimenez, cnn, uvalde, texas. a man in georgia has been charged with the murder of a u.s. postal worker. federal prosecutors say larry grogan shot asa wood jr. as he was delivering mail in rural georgia in august of last year. wood died in his postal vehicle. he had been a mail carrier for more than 20 years. there has been no word of a possible motive. brazil s president says more than 200 soldiers are searching for a british journalist in a brazilian indigenous affairs expert missing since sunday. officials say dom phillips and bruno pereira were in a remote part of the amazon known for illegal mining and drug trafficking roots, and they were there to research a book project on conservation efforts in the region, but reportedly received death threats just days before. police say a suspect in the disappearance is in custody.
The "organic material" is being sent for forensic analysis, federal police said in a statement, along with blood found on a suspect's boat that will be compared with genetic material from freelance journalist Dom Phillips and his travel companion, indigenous expert Bruno Pereira. A Brazilian judge had already ordered the suspect, a fisherman charged with illegal possession of restricted ammunition, to be held for a further 30 days while police investigate whether he is involved, according to a lawyer for a local indigenous organization.