Pubdate: Fri, 20 Sep 2002
Source: New York Times (NY)
Section: International
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Author: Larry Rohter

BRAZIL: ARREST IN REPORTER'S KILLING

After a siege of more than a week, the police in Rio de Janeiro have 
arrested a powerful gang leader, Elias Pereira da Silva, and charged him 
with the murder of Tim Lopes, a prominent television reporter. Mr. Lopes 
was kidnapped and killed early in June, just as he was beginning an 
investigation of drug trafficking in slum neighborhoods controlled by the 
gang. His death became a symbol of the government's inability to control 
criminal groups, generating street demonstrations and demands for a 
reorganization of the police.
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