Police stated in a remark that Jefferson da Silva Lima, referred to as Pelado da Dinha, became himself on the police station in Atalaia do Norte within the Amazon.
Police stated the suspect shall be referred to a custody listening to.
Two different males are already in jail for alleged involvement within the killings: Amarildo Oliveira, referred to as Pelado, and his brother, Oseney de Oliveira, referred to as Dos Santos.
Phillips and Pereira had been ultimate noticed June 5 on their boat at the Itaquai river, close to the doorway of the Javari Valley Indigenous Territory, which borders Peru and Colombia.
On Friday, federal police stated that human stays present in Brazil’s faraway Amazon were known as belonging to Phillips, 57.
Further stays discovered on the web page close to town of Atalaia do Norte have now not but been known however are anticipated to belong to Indigenous professional Pereira, 41.
“The affirmation (of Phillips’ stays) used to be made in response to dental examinations and anthropological forensics,” Federal Police stated in a remark. “Paintings is ongoing for an entire id of the stays so we will be able to resolve the reason for loss of life, and in addition the dynamics of the crime and the hiding of the our bodies.”
The stays had been discovered on Wednesday, after fisherman Pelado confessed to killing the pair, and took police to where the place he would have buried the our bodies. He informed officials that he used a firearm to dedicate the crime.
The stays had arrived within the capital town of Brasilia on Thursday for forensics to paintings.
The world the place Phillips and Pereira went lacking has noticed violent conflicts between fishermen, poachers, and govt brokers.
