Marcos Willians Herbas Camacho, known by the aliases “Marcola” and “Playboy,” has been the top leader of Brazil’s biggest and most powerful criminal organization, the First Capital Command (Primeiro ...

The First Capital Command (Primeiro Comando da Capital – PCC) is Brazil’s biggest and best-organized criminal network. It was born in São Paulo in the 1990s and has forged a bloody path to dominance ...

Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC), a Brazilian prison gang, staged a series of attacks in May that paralyzed the city of Sao Paulo. Subsequent waves of violence have raised concerns about the ...

Marcola has been in prison since 1999 and is serving accrued sentences totalling more than 300 years. In June, the São Paulo Public Prosecutor's Office revealed that Portugal is the European country ...

The Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC), which means the First Capital Command, is a Brazilian gang that operates from within the São Paulo state penitentiary system by means of cell phones and a ...

The government of São Paulo transferred 22 inmates—all of whom leaders of the criminal organization Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC)—to federal penitentiaries. The prisoners were in the Presidente ...