This month is heavy, and now he's in police custody
Gato Preto detained at police station after leaving accident scene; his Instagram account went offline following the incident. Bia Miranda claims another driver ran a red light, but conflicting accounts exist about who caused the collision.
- Samuel Sant'anna (Gato Preto) detained at 14º Distrito Policial (Pinheiros), São Paulo, August 20, 2025
- Porsche collision on Avenida Brigadeiro Faria Lima, west São Paulo
- Bia Miranda posted videos of both drinking and smoking hours before the accident
- Sant'anna's Instagram account went offline following the incident
Brazilian influencer Gato Preto was arrested for fleeing the scene of a Porsche collision on São Paulo's Brigadeiro Faria Lima Avenue. His girlfriend Bia Miranda disputed fault claims on social media.
Samuel Sant'anna, known to his hundreds of thousands of followers as Gato Preto, was brought into the 14th Police District in the Pinheiros neighborhood of São Paulo on Wednesday morning, August 20th. The charge was straightforward: he had left the scene of a car accident. The vehicle involved was a Porsche, and it had collided with another car on Avenida Brigadeiro Faria Lima, in the city's west zone. Within hours of his detention, his Instagram account disappeared from the platform.
The sequence of events that morning became a study in competing narratives. Hours before the collision, videos posted by Sant'anna and his girlfriend, Bia Miranda—herself a public figure and former contestant on the reality show A Fazenda—showed them at a party. In the footage, both were drinking and smoking. The posts remained visible on their accounts even as the legal situation unfolded.
Miranda, who was in the Porsche at the time of the accident, took to social media to address what had happened. Around 12:30 p.m., she posted stories saying she had just woken up and was trying to find out which police station her boyfriend had been taken to so she could "sort things out." She described the month as particularly difficult for both of them, noting that the Porsche had been paid off just the day before the crash. "This month is heavy," she wrote.
On the question of fault, Miranda's account differed from what police or other witnesses may have suggested. She said she had been told at the scene that an older man had run a red light and that Sant'anna had hit him head-on. But she acknowledged the confusion and conflicting claims. "Now they're saying it was Samuel who ran the light. I don't know, I don't know who's right, who's wrong," she said. She added an apology directed at the other driver and his family, should they have been at fault.
Witnesses at the scene had filmed the damaged Porsche after the collision, and those images circulated online showing both Miranda and Sant'anna present at the vehicle. Sant'anna's representatives did not respond to requests for comment, and his social media silence—the disappearance of his account—left the public record largely to Miranda's version and the questions raised by the timing of the pre-accident videos.
The incident sits at the intersection of several uncomfortable details: a high-end vehicle, social media documentation of drinking and smoking hours before a crash, a departure from the accident scene, and a girlfriend defending her boyfriend's account while the legal system moved forward with detention. What remains unclear is whether impairment played a role, what the police investigation will ultimately determine about fault, and what comes next for Sant'anna in the legal process.
Citas Notables
This month is heavy. The Porsche was paid off yesterday, and now he's been arrested.— Bia Miranda, on social media
I don't know who's right, who's wrong. I want to apologize to the older man and his son, if we were at fault.— Bia Miranda, disputing accounts of the collision
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Why does it matter that they posted videos of drinking and smoking before the crash?
Because it creates a timeline. If he was impaired, that changes everything about how the accident happened and why he left the scene. Right now, we only have Bia's version of fault.
She seems to be defending him pretty actively on social media. Is that helping or hurting?
It's complicated. She's his girlfriend, so of course she's going to defend him. But she's also a public figure with her own following, and she's essentially making legal arguments in real time, on Instagram Stories, while he's in police custody and silent.
The Porsche was paid off the day before. That feels like it matters to her emotionally.
It does. She's saying the timing is cruel—they finally own the car free and clear, and then this happens. It's a detail that shows how she's processing it: as a series of bad breaks, not as a serious legal problem.
But leaving the scene of an accident is a specific crime, right?
Yes. That's what he was detained for. The question of who caused the collision is separate from whether he should have stayed at the scene.
What's the significance of his Instagram going dark?
It's a choice—either his choice or his team's. It removes him from the conversation just when his girlfriend is actively participating in it. It makes him look like he's hiding, whether he is or not.