Judge Ana Maria Chalub De Aquino of the 4th Criminal Court of São José do Rio Preto convicted Walace de Paula Batista Dionisio of drug trafficking aggravated by the use of a firearm.[1] He received 6 years, 9 months and 20 days of imprisonment in an initial closed regime, plus 680 day-fines at the statutory minimum rate.[1] The judge dismissed the separate firearm-possession charge under article 16 of Law 10.826/03, treating the gun as absorbed into the trafficking offence.[1] The court kept his preventive detention in place and ordered the Land Rover Discovery Sport forfeited to the federal government.[1]
Military police arrested Dionisio at around 7:55 p.m. on 28 November 2025 at the Parque da Liberdade 4 residential condominium in São José do Rio Preto.[1] Officers were on preventive patrol after tip-offs that the driver of a black Land Rover was distributing drugs while armed in the area.[1] When he saw the patrol car he made an abrupt manoeuvre, almost collided with the officers and tried to flee along the internal streets while throwing two objects from the window.[1] During the stop, officers recovered a mobile phone and a .380-calibre Taurus pistol with its serial number removed and loaded with eight cartridges.[1] On the floor of the vehicle beneath the driver’s seat, officers seized a brick of pressed cannabis with a net weight of 513.26 grams.[1]
In court he denied the charges, said the car was borrowed and claimed police had planted the drugs and weapon.[1] The judge rejected defence claims that the stop was unlawful and that examination of his phone was inadmissible.[1] Forensic examination of the phone did not proceed after the defence supplied an incorrect password.[1] At sentencing the court started from the 5-year statutory minimum, added one-sixth for repeat offending and another sixth for the firearm aggravating factor.[1] It kept the closed regime because he was a repeat offender who committed the offence while on conditional release.[1]
