 After he had completed a sixth of his total sentence he was let out of prison on work release, at which point he fled.He was recaptured by police in the Rio suburb of Santa Cruz in May 2010.Other traffickers implicated in Lopes's torture and murder were André da Cruz Barbosa, or André Capeta (André the Devil), who cut Lopes's legs and ordered others to burn the body; Flávio Reginaldo dos Santos (Buda); and Maurício de Lima Matias (Boizinho), who were all killed in confrontations with police.