Rio De Janeiro's most wanted drug baron, which controlled trade with South America's biggest favela of fear and intimidation over the past six years, has been arrested after Police posing a high risk operation.
Antonio Francisco Bonfim Lopes, known as Nem, was arrested while hiding in the trunk of a car stopped at a roadblock, as police surrounded the area of Rocinha shanty-town in an attempt to reclaim control of end region.
Pictures showed Lopes, 35, languished in handcuffs looking when he led the armed police armored vehicles After his arrest about midnight on Wednesday. Brazil police said a man drove his car claiming to be a diplomat of the Congo in a bid to avoid a vehicle that is being sought before residents offered police a bribe of one million Brazil reais ($ A558, 000) to let them go.
Rocinha residents and neighbouring districts is equally gripping rich by fear amid concerns that the operation could lead to pave the way battles between the police and criminal gangs are armed with machineguns, rifles and grenades.
Twelve families were reportedly forced from their homes at night by gang members who wanted to use them as hiding places, while children who attend schools in the area asking of the lesson. Members of the military police's Elite special operations battalion and federal police agents have flooded the area as they were trying to restore order impure district before World Cup 2014 in Brazil and the 2016 Olympics in Rio.