Brazilian police hunt dangerous prisoners after jail break Published 5 hours ago
Brazilian police hunt dangerous prisoners after jail break Published 5 hours ago Share IMAGE SOURCE, RIO DE JANEIRO POLICE Image caption, Three inmates, including drug trafficker Jean Carlos dos Santos (right), escaped on Sunday By Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News Police in Brazil are searching for one of Rio's most dangerous drug lords, Jean Carlos dos Santos, after he broke out of jail with two fellow inmates. The three escaped from Bangu prison social bookmarking site list by tying bed-sheets together and lowering themselves from a prison window to a rubbish dump. Jean Carlos dos Santos, 37, is social bookmarking site notorious for having had his lawyer killed after the latter failed to get two gang members released. He had been in prison since 2017. Jean Carlos dos Santos, also known as Jean do Morro do 18, controlled much of the drug trafficking in the Morro do 18 favela in Rio before his arrest. A court also found him and another gang member guilty of the murder of his lawy...