 In 2007 he was paroled, at which point he fled to the Complexo do Alemão, which was an area outside of police interference at that time.Zeu was later secretly filmed working as a drug trafficker in the Complexo do Alemão.It was only in 2010 when military and police units invaded the network of favelas in the Complexo that they discovered him hiding in a house in a part of the Complexo known as Coqueiro.