Officers escorted alleged drug gang leader Antonio Bonfim Lopes at federal police headquarters in Rio de Janeiro.
(Felipe Dana/Associated Press)
Brazilian police arrest alleged drug lord
Officers escorted alleged drug gang leader Antonio Bonfim Lopes at federal police headquarters in Rio de Janeiro.
(Felipe Dana/Associated Press)
The most-wanted drug gang leader in this Olympic city was arrested yesterday, police said. The capture is a blow to the gang that controls one of Latin America’s biggest slums and the main drug distribution point in Rio. Antonio Bonfim Lopes, known as “Nem,’’ tried to flee the Rocinha slum in the trunk of a car, which was stopped at a police checkpoint just outside the shantytown, said Victor Poubel, a federal police inspector.
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