Brazilian Police Arrest Top Rio Drug Lord in Trunk of Car
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One of Brazil’s most-wanted criminals, who police say controls a gang of 200 armed drug traffickers in a Rio de Janeiro slum that sprawls above the city’s wealthiest neighborhood, has been arrested.
Police said they found Antonio Francisco Bonfim Lopes, known as Nem, hidden in the trunk of a car before dawn. One of Nem’s three escorts identified himself as the consul for the Democratic Republic of Congo and requested the car not be searched, claiming diplomatic immunity.