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Caribbean-Latin America
Rio drug lord killed by police
2004-10-14
Police in Rio de Janeiro killed the city's most-wanted drug lord yesterday and occupied the slum where he had been hiding to prevent an outbreak of gang violence. The death of Irapuan Davi Lopes, known as Gangan, who ran the drug trade in five big favelas (slums), came a day after authorities responded to media criticism of Rio's high murder rate by pledging to "confront drug trafficking head-on." Police said Gangan, 34, resisted an attempt to arrest him and opened fire on officers who gunned him down early yesterday in the hillside San Carlos slum not far from the city centre.
"Go screw, coppers! You'll never take me alive!"
"Hokay Davi, we'll do it your way." [BANG!]
"Accck! ... Rosebud!"
Alvaro Lins, head of Rio investigative police, said police had been after Gangan for a year. "He was a priority due to his high position in the drug trade... his death disrupts the organisation within his faction," Mr Lins said. Gangan was a member of a criminal organisation known as the Third Command. Following the shootout, police troops occupied the slum and blocked access, fearing drug traffickers would incite residents to stage violent protests. Authorities believe Gangan was behind an attack on the Rio mayor's office in 2002 when gunmen fired assault rifles into the building during the night in an apparent show of force.
Posted by:Steve White

#1  Now this is a War on Drugs I could really get behind.
Posted by: Mike   2004-10-14 5:57:20 AM  

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