Police Nab Escaped Killer of Mendes
From Times Wire Reports
Police captured the fugitive killer of rain forest activist Chico Mendes, three years after he escaped from an Amazon prison where he was serving a 19-year sentence for the slaying. Darci Alves Pereira was arrested as he left his sister’s home in the town of Guaira near the Paraguayan border, police said.
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