One among brazil's maximum desired men has been arrested in the town of rio de janeiro.
Rogerio avelino da silva, higher known as rogerio 157, become detained within the rocinha favela, a sprawling neighbourhood largely managed with the aid of gangs.
He is wanted on costs of drug trafficking, extortion and homicide.
Nearly 3,000 officers took component inside the operation which caused his arrest. A number of them took selfies with the suspect.
Brazilian day by day o globo posted the selfies, in a number of which rogerio changed into smiling even as the officers flashed the victory signal.
Rio police also published a video of the arrest on twitter. They said he had now not supplied any resistance.
Bypass twitter put up by way of @pcerj
Rogerio 157 made it on to the most-desired listing in september after gunmen unswerving to him fought road battles with gang members of a jailed rival drugs boss in rocinha.The 35-yr-antique is stated to have been given his nickname for the police code for irritated robbery, his alleged speciality when he started out on his criminal profession.
Police say rogerio 157 formed a part of a set of fellows who took travelers hostage within the motel intercontinental in rio in 2010. One lady become killed inside the resulting shoot-out.
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Police say rogerio 157 controlled a part of the sprawling rocinha favela, which he took over after the arrest of the drug lord called "nem" for whom he used to work as a bodyguard.
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The security forces were looking for rogerio 157 for months. Nearly three,000 contributors of the army and numerous police forces had been deployed on wednesday to comb the region street by road.
Residents of rocinha said shots can be heard in the hours after the arrests, which they attributed to a rival gang seeking to flow into rogerio 157's territory.
