Brazil arrests ‘Colorido,’ PCC drug gang’s No. 2 leader
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazil’s justice ministry stated on Sunday that federal police had captured the No. 2 chief of the First Capital Command (PCC), the nation’s strongest jail gang and a serious exporter of cocaine.
Valdeci Alves dos Santos, generally known as Colorido, was captured on Saturday within the northeastern city of Salgueiro, the justice ministry stated. It stated he had been on the run since 2014 and was on its checklist of most wished criminals. He is without doubt one of the essential suppliers of medicine to Brazil’s southeast, the ministry stated.
Born within the prisons of Sao Paulo state, the PCC has change into one of the crucial highly effective felony organizations within the Americas, accountable for transferring medicine from South American producer nations to produce shopper markets in Brazil and Europe.
A lot of the highest management has been in jail for years; Colorido was the gang’s No. 2 amongst these nonetheless dwelling in liberty, the ministry stated.
In 2020, PCC trafficker Gilberto Aparecido dos Santos, aka “Fuminho,” was captured in Mozambique, in an indication of the gang’s rising worldwide footprint. He had been on the run for greater than 20 years till his seize in Maputo.
(Reporting by Gabriel Stargardter; modifying by Stephen Coates)
