


One of the world’s most wanted illegal immigrants who escaped a 275-year prison sentence in his native Brazil has been busted by Boston ICE agents.
Antonio Jose De Abreu Vidal Filho, 29, was caught in Rye, N.H., on Monday, immigration officials tell the Herald.
An Interpol Red Notice lists him as being wanted for murder, attempted murder, physical torture and mental torture. A Red Notice is a worldwide alert for a fugitive.
The former Brazilian military police officer was sentenced for 11 murders after defecting, Brazilian newspaper El Globo reported. He had already in the U.S. with his family when a jury found him guilty of 11 murders, the paper wrote.
He was one of four military police officers sentenced to more than 1,000 years in prison, collectively, for what was called the “Curio Massacre” in Brazil. An appeal was expected, the defendants’ lawyers said.
The paper said the 11 murders were in retaliation for the death of a Brazilian police officer, but some of the victims had only been accused of minor crimes. A Brazilian official said in 2015 the slayings in Ceara, a state in northeastern Brazil, were “absurd.”
The fugitive will remain in ICE custody pending a hearing before a federal immigration judge.
Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers from Boston arrested the former MP without incident.
“The apprehension of this very dangerous foreign fugitive is an outstanding example of the professionalism and expertise of the officers of ERO Boston,” said ERO Boston Field Office Director Todd Lyons.
In fiscal year 2022, ERO arrested 46,396 noncitizens with criminal histories. This group had 198,498 associated charges and convictions, including 21,531 assault offenses; 8,164 sex and sexual assault offenses; 5,554 weapons offenses; 1,501 homicide-related offenses; and 1,114 kidnapping offenses.