Terceiro Comando Puro is a Brazilian

criminal organization Organized crime (or organised crime) is a category of transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals to engage in illegal activity, most commonly for profit. While organized crime is generally th ...

Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a b ...

. They split from the

Terceiro Comando Terceiro Comando (Portuguese for ''Third Command'') is a Brazilian criminal organization engaged in drug trafficking in Rio de Janeiro. It was founded in the early 1980s and is a break-away faction of the Comando Vermelho. The ''Terceiro Coman ...

in 2002. Group activity is concentrated in the northern and eastern areas, specifically the neighborhood of Senador Camará,wscom.com 03/15/10
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