A judge has ordered Amarildo da Costa to be held as traces of blood were found on his boat after he spent time with a missing British journalist and an anthropologist
Human remains have been found days after celebrities and public officials called for increased efforts to look into the disappearance of a British journalist and a Brazilian anthropologist, who were reported missing in the Amazon rainforest earlier this week. Authorities detained a person of interest when unknown traces of blood were discovered on his boat.
reported. Costa, who is a resident of the Sao Rafael region of the Amazon, allegedly fished on the river, and the blood stains were found on his boat. However, he and his family have reiterated his innocence., Costa was arrested earlier this week for the illegal possession of restricted ammunition. His mother claimed the blood police found, which is now being analyzed to determine its origin, belonged to a pig her son previously killed.
reported. They also noted that their search focused on people who may have had a role in illegal fishing and poaching, in which they suspected Costa may have been involved., was reported to be working on a book that covered preservation of the Amazon rainforest. Pereira had allegedly gotten threats for his work covering illegal fishing.