One of the world’s most wished unlawful immigrants who escaped a 275-year jail sentence in his native Brazil has been busted by Boston ICE brokers.
Antonio Jose De Abreu Vidal Filho, 29, was caught in Rye, N.H., on Monday, immigration officers inform the Herald.
An Interpol Red Notice lists him as being wished for homicide, tried homicide, bodily torture and psychological torture. A Red Notice is a worldwide alert for a fugitive.
The former Brazilian navy police officer was sentenced for 11 murders after defecting, Brazilian newspaper El Globo reported. He had already within the U.S. along with his household when a jury discovered him responsible of 11 murders, the paper wrote.
He was considered one of 4 navy law enforcement officials sentenced to greater than 1,000 years in jail, collectively, for what was referred to as the “Curio Massacre” in Brazil. An attraction was anticipated, the defendants’ attorneys stated.
The paper stated the 11 murders have been in retaliation for the demise of a Brazilian police officer, however among the victims had solely been accused of minor crimes. A Brazilian official stated in 2015 the slayings in Ceara, a state in northeastern Brazil, have been “absurd.”
The fugitive will stay in ICE custody pending a listening to earlier than a federal immigration choose.
Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers from Boston arrested the previous MP with out incident.
“The apprehension of this very dangerous foreign fugitive is an outstanding example of the professionalism and expertise of the officers of ERO Boston,” stated ERO Boston Field Office Director Todd Lyons.
In fiscal yr 2022, ERO arrested 46,396 noncitizens with felony histories. This group had 198,498 related prices and convictions, together with 21,531 assault offenses; 8,164 intercourse and sexual assault offenses; 5,554 weapons offenses; 1,501 homicide-related offenses; and 1,114 kidnapping offenses.
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