Drug Baron Caught After 30 Years On The Run

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A drug kingpin who has been on the run for 30 years has finally been nabbed in Brazil by the police, who said they met him armed alongside his wife and son.

The drug baron, Luiz Carlos Da Rocha, also known as White Head, is said to be the most wanted drug lord in Brazil. For the 30 years he was on the run, he had used plastic surgery operations to utter his physical features as part of his elaborate designs to evade arrest, just as he worked as agricultural worker in a community of just over 80,000 people.

*Notorious drug kingpin Luiz Carlos da Rocha used plastic surgery to evade capture for 30 years 

"Police stormed the home of Luiz Carlos da Rocha yesterday finding him armed, alongside his wife and young son.

"Brazen Rocha has amassed a multi-million pound fortune as one of the world's biggest drug's barons, importing tonnes of cocaine into Brazil and across the world.

"Brazilian police said his organisation was known to be violent, making use of armed escorts, armoured cars, and heavy weapons.

"It produced cocaine in Bolivia, Peru and Colombia, before shipping it through an elaborate logistics system to Europe and the United States," reports Mirror newspaper.

"Officers managed to snare the notorious crook - nicknamed "White Head" - after infiltrating his global trafficking gang.
                 *Luiz Carlos Da Rocha after his arrest in Brazil
"Operation Spectrum - the name given to the sting - seized some £7.6million worth of criminal assets, including farms, other real estate, luxury vehicles and aircraft.

"Yet police believe his overall worth is closer to £75million and are seeking to recover the remainder of his assets.

"He is being held on convictions handed down by the Federal Court that amount to more than 50 years in prison after being caught following a lengthy joint operation between Federal Police and Interpol in South America."

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