Fisherman Who Saw Missing British Journalist Arrested in Brazil on Weapons Charge

British journalist Dom Phillips, who went missing while reporting in a remote and lawless part of the Amazon rainforest near the border with Peru, in Brazil, in December 2009. Paul Sherwood/Handout via Reuters

RIO DE JANEIRO—Brazilian police investigating a missing British journalist and an indigenous expert in the Amazon jungle have arrested a man on a weapons charge, but have no evidence to tie him to their disappearance, police and the detainee’s lawyer told Reuters.

Witnesses said they last saw Dom Phillips, a freelancer who has written for the Guardian, the Washington Post and other publications, on Sunday along with Bruno Pereira, a former senior official with federal indigenous agency Funai.