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Tip Allows Brazilian Drug Lord to Evade Arrest for the Second Time

Mota texted his concerns to his now-detained chief bodyguard, Iuri da Silva Gusmão. Investigators had received a tip suggesting that he might be hiding at his uncle’s rural property in a border town between Brazil and Paraguay. Mota explained that someone had switched on a “dirty” (unsecured) cellphone, and that police would be watching. “They …

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