Lopes' boss at Globo said that Lopes was working on a story about sexual exploitation at the baile funk, with the understanding that Lopes would have tried to obtain footage at the baile funk had he not been accosted relatively early in the night. When the police special forces unit of BOPE mounted an operation against them in September 2013 he and another trafficker were killed in the ensuing gun battle along with a lieutenant of BOPE. The Milwaukee Brewers have claimed utilityman Tim Lopes off waivers from the Seattle Mariners. [20] (In 2011 he was charged with assault while in prison after throwing boiling water on his girlfriend during a conjugal visit). Elias Pereira da Silva, also known as Elias the Madman, was apprehended in one of Rio de Janeiro's favelas, or shantytowns, after a two-day search. Lopes became a producer at Rede Globo in 1996. [58], A street has since been named after Tim Lopes in Rio's west suburb of Barra da Tijuca. [56][57], Tim Lopes was honored in a São Paulo carnaval (carnival) procession in 2003 by the samba school, Acadêmicos do Tucuruvi, with the theme "Do not shut my voice," a tribute to a free press, with lyrics such as, "the truth Tim-Tim by Tim-Tim," in reference to his nickname. Necklacing was also widely used in the second armed insurrection led by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna in Sri Lanka. [52][53][54], Rio journalist Jorge Antonio Barros, who has been writing about Rio's favelas and the crime beat since the 1980s and was a colleague of Lopes at Globo, wrote that Lopes's death served to snap him out of the dream state, to which people sometimes fall prey, of romanticizing "the malandro;" and that his death reminded people who don't have to live in favelas under the "law of the trafficker" of the terror that exists as a daily reality. This was the same route that the kidnapped Tim Lopes traveled in a car trunk when he was being transported from Vila Cruzeiro to the Complexo do Alemão. R. 16. HR. R. 16. Actually we did it, because there’s no way I would be here without you all. His footage also captured armed traffickers parading past on motorcycles with AK-47s. Moto 17 Ktm St Jean GASGAS en France Fox Racing MXSpirit Bihr BOS Suspension #mm85 L.A Sellerie Design BUD Racing Prostuf NEKEN Mika Musquin #MM85 Axp Racing Mecanicsport Carrosserie Saubion leBigUSA.com Biket Racing SenSecur Jacky Balateau Moto Ktm St Jean RIDE 100% #maisonleydet Allianz Ferrand Xavier #bobybuttpatch #johanchartran … The Tim Lopes Journalist Library is open waiting for you! [9] Although Lopes was born Gaucho (native resident of Rio Grande do Sul), "he was a stereotypical Carioca" (native resident of Rio de Janeiro), always smiling with a friendly disposition and knowing every corner of Rio. State police officers arrested Timothy Lopez for the death of 58-year-old Thomas Velarde. Lopes spent nine seasons with the Los Angeles Dodgers as their regular second baseman. In addition to drug selling, in certain favelas, traffickers were sexually exploiting minors from the community at their baile funk,[4] sometimes forcing girls to put on explicit shows by having sex out in the open against a wall at these events. Jornal Nacional stated that Lopes's recorded footage was destroyed that night in the micro-ondas and that the community at Vila Cruzeiro had asked for Lopes help concerning minors being prostituted at the baile funk in their community. 2021 Fantasy Outlook. According to Depen, the Federal Police was called in to conduct an investigation on the spot. Gomes wrote that if Globo would have notified the police at midnight on June 2, there was still a chance that Lopes's life could have been saved through police interdiction.[10]. Zeu was later secretly filmed working as a drug trafficker in the Complexo do Alemão. Cachaça saw the story and commented to a sambista friend, Monarco, of the Velha Guarda da Portela, that Lopes's reporting was "the best material that he had ever seen" on Mangueira. [9] As part of an investigative piece in 1978, Lopes worked at a construction site on Rio's underground Metro to highlight difficult working conditions in the stifling heat. Milwaukee Brewers . Lopes was investigating drug trafficking and child prostitution. Now going by the name Cinqüenta (Fifty), he was a 12-year-old boy in 2002 when he was told to buy diesel fuel and bring it to the top of the hill in order to set fire to Lopes. ", Read the original article (in Portuguese), Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, Video of Knight Center’s webinar for journalists covering the COVID-19 vaccines is now available in 7 languages, How defending democracy made Brazil's Folha de S. Paulo more profitable and influential despite scars left by support of dictatorship, AG Sulzberger, New York Times’ chairman and publisher, will open ISOJ 2021. [72] The title of the film is "Histórias de Arcanjo: um documentário sobre Tim Lopes," (Stories of Archangel: a documentary about Tim Lopes);[56][73] Arcanjo being Tim Lopes's first name. AUSTIN, Texas — By a sick coincidence, the Brazilian journalist Tim Lopes was assassinated precisely on the 26th anniversary of the car-bomb explosion that killed his North American colleague, reporter Don Bolles, on June 2, 1976 in Phoenix, Arizona. [10] It was later learned that before this night, Lopes had recently filmed in Vila Cruzeiro three different times. Cabral stated that Tim Lopes's memory had been honored by Rio's government when the press room and a public high school were named after Lopes. Lopes has primarily played left field and right field, but he also has experience at second base and third base. The details of Lopes's death received substantial attention in Brazil's media because of the barbarity of the crime and due to it highlighting the existence of poder paralelo (parallel power) within Rio—meaning criminals controlling areas of the city with impunity. On May 25, 2005 he was given a prison sentence of 28½ years.[35]. [27][28] There they uncovered a few burned bone fragments of several individuals. September 18, 2013: Clinton LumberKings activated 2B Tim Lopes from the 7-day disabled list. A TV Globo journalist, Lopes was killed on the night of 2-3 June while gathering information on the use of child prostitutes by drug dealers in the Vila del Cruzeiro shantytown on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. 5. [42][43], Elizeu Felício de Souza (Zeu) was responsible for setting fire to Lopes's body. Gomes concluded in his investigation that Lopes had not filmed at the baile funk in Vila Cruzeiro that night. Jammu and Kashmir police launch investigations into 3 journalists. [69], A Gondola lift/cable car built by the Leitner-Poma group now spans the Complexo do Alemão allowing residents a faster commute. AVG. The story described certain baile funk run by traffickers (baile funk are dance concerts held in favelas featuring live performers singing a style of rap called Rio Funk). [63] Thousands of soldiers of the Brazilian military were stationed throughout these communities during the subsequent two years. Legacy.com enhances online obituaries with Guest Books, funeral home information, and florist links. [10] This footage was shot in a dense network of favelas in the Zona Norte called the Complexo do Alemão (German Complex); more specifically within the Complexo this particular area is known as the Grota. [41] By September 2013 he was one of those leading a gang of sixty heavily armed bandits ensconced in the jungled hills above Rio (between Covanca and Lins de Vasconcelos) as a home base from which they preyed on neighborhoods. 15. The scene weighed on Lopes's mind for a long time.[15]. [4] There was also what remained of a burned ninja sword. Positions: Second Baseman, Third Baseman and Leftfielder Bats: Right • Throws: Right 5-11, 180lb (180cm, 81kg) . Lopez is charged with first-degree murder and aggravated assault. [25], Several Brazilian journalists visited these favelas in the days after the security forces took control and discussed what the changes meant. On Monday June 3, 2002 at 11:00 am, Gomes was sitting in his office at the police station when he was notified that an attorney from Rede Globo was there to see him. [27] They described how Lopes was transported by car to the Grota in the Complexo do Alemão to meet Elias Maluco and others of the gang and how Lopes was recognized from television and made to suffer humiliation and torture and his body burned to destroy evidence. Gomes wrote that Lopes filmed traffickers dealing drugs and carrying guns that night. [20][23], Upon being confronted, Lopes stated that he was a journalist from Rede Globo. Mangueira is home to the samba school, Mangueira and is located on a hill near Maracanã football stadium. Tim Lopes. Legacy.com is the leading provider of online obituaries for the newspaper industry. Lopes, 26, batted .238 with two homers and 15 RBIs in 46 games for Seattle last season. The rookie initially stayed in the game, but was replaced by Dylan Moore in the seventh. A man is in custody for a suspected homicide in Alcalde on Thanksgiving. )[10], In June 2012, ten years after Tim Lopes's death, the Complexo do Alemão began to be under the umbrella of eight new Pacifying Police Units (UPPs) at the predetermined conclusion of the military's presence. [28] The television program Jornal Nacional pursued the story, which increased the pressure on the authorities to capture the criminals involved; and O Globo newspaper and TV began using the term poder paralelo (parallel power) to describe the paradigm of that time of criminal gangs controlling certain favelas within Rio with impunity. The community told the police many times and nothing was done."[4][10]. Tim Lopes. [50][51], Though a prominent journalist, Tim Lopes only became nationally known after his death in a crime that shocked the country. 4 talking about this. Create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile and upload a portfolio of your best work. Last year, Seattle gave him a chance … 2021 Projections. HR. Tous les décès depuis 1970, évolution de l'espérance de vie en France, par département, commune, prénom et nom de famille ! Upon his arrest in 2007, he gave a detailed account to police about that night and spoke to a group of journalists, adding to what had been previously said during the investigation. The arrest was widely publicized and applauded in Rio's media. Lopes has primarily played left field and right field, but he also has experience at second base and third base. On 10 August 2017, Swedish freelance journalist Kim Wall boarded the midget submarine UC3 Nautilus, in Køge Bugt, Denmark, with the intent of interviewing its owner, Danish entrepreneur Peter Madsen.She was reported missing after Nautilus failed to return to Refshaleøen, Copenhagen.The submarine was found sunken the following morning and Madsen was … In … Team: Seattle Mariners (majors) Born: June 24, 1994 in Los Angeles, CA us Draft: … It was later learned that Lopes had been accosted by drug traffickers who controlled the area, was kidnapped, driven to the top of a neighboring favela in the trunk of a car, tied to a tree and subjected to a mock trial, tortured by having his hands, arms, and legs severed with a sword while still alive, and then had his body placed within tires, covered in gasoline and set on fire—a practice that traffickers have dubbed micro-ondas[1][2] (in allusion to the microwave oven).[3]. She filmed in the Rio favelas of Mangueira and Rocinha during the same time period. [10] The report was televised in Brazil on the program Jornal Nacional on August 3, 2001. [45] 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. I assumed that was a death sentence because you lose a lot of blood really fast. His dad was going to sign up both Tim and his brother, Christian, for youth baseball. [4] He was using a micro-camera concealed within a small pack at his waist. His visit coincided with the establishment of a permanent community police presence, as new UPPs were inaugurated in the area. April 1, 2014: Tim Lopes assigned to High Desert Mavericks from Clinton LumberKings. Tim Lopes and his team were awarded Brazil's top journalism prize for the report which was titled "Feirão das Drogas" ("Big Drug Fair") - the first Prêmio Esso given for broadcast investigative journalism in Brazil. Elias Maluco was arrested in September 2002, and in 2005 he was sentenced to 28 years and six months in prison for the death of journalist Tim Lopes." Tim Lopes was a bit of a happy homecoming story over the past couple years, having been dealt to Toronto prior to 2017 as a 23 year old in AA for SHP Pat Venditte. [7][10], In 2002 Lopes started working on a story about caminhoneiros (long-distance truck drivers that traverse Brazil) for Globo TV. AVG. As is common in the criminal underworld, the traffickers were known by their nicknames: André Capeta (André the Devil) and Boizinho (Little Ox). Years later as a journalist, Lopes produced a piece about Mangueira samba and one of its founders, the Carioca sambista Carlos Cachaça. WHEN TV journalist Tim Russert died June 13, it was heartbreaking news for his family, friends and fans. On the afternoon of June 2, 2002, 51-year-old Tim Lopes left his apartment in a middle class section of Rio's Copacabana neighborhood. Read the original article (in Portuguese) Brazil; Violence Against Journalists; More Articles. (There will be more Tims!) Position: Leftfielder Bats: Right • Throws: Right 5-11, 180lb (180cm, 81kg) . When a taxi driver scares the mugger off by firing a revolver, the boy runs into heavy traffic on Avenida Presidente Vargas and is violently killed when he is hit by a city bus. RBI. After leaving his office that afternoon at the Rede Globo television studios, where he left his "cell phone, wallet, and dress shirt," Lopes went to the Penha Shopping Mall where he rigged himself with a hidden camera. [4][24], The traffickers drove Lopes along a winding back dirt road leading away from the Vila Cruzeiro favela (which is situated in Penha) and into the Complexo do Alemão network of favelas,[4] a distance of about 5 kilometers (3.1 miles)[10] on winding roads through hilly terrain (this also being the same route used by groups of fleeing criminals brandishing assault rifles when military police units and the Brazilian military invaded Vila Cruzeiro during the 2010 Rio de Janeiro security crisis). [4] An example of this was the series he wrote for the Rio newspaper O Dia in 1994 entitled, "Funk: Som, Alegria, e Terror," (Funk: Sound, Joy, and Terror). One journalist wounded, fugitive murderer of TV Globo reporter Tim Lopes arrested in Rio military operation. Lopes also had a nineteen-year-old son, Bruno, from a previous marriage, with whom he maintained a father-son relationship. In 2002, he was reported him missing while working undercover on a story in one of Rio's favelas.It was later learned that Lopes was kidnapped by drug leaders. March 4, 2016: 2B Tim Lopes assigned to Seattle Mariners. Marion Cotillard est une actrice française née le 30 septembre 1975 à Paris.. Lopes was placed within several tires, covered in diesel fuel, and set on fire. 15. '[14] Lopes felt that the government had ceded control of poor neighborhoods to violent drug traffickers. For many years these hilltops were used by leaders of drug trafficking gangs as sanctuary from law enforcement; they now feature the stations of a gondola transport system connecting the Complexo, operational since July 2011. Only a few people live like Tim used to live in the favelas. [70] It is now possible for residents of remote hills within the Complexo to take a gondola across the stretches of favela and arrive at a point where they can catch a train going to other parts of Rio de Janeiro.[10]. The sides of the hill are densely packed with the type of brick shacks typical of favelas, but the geography at the top of the hill features a desolate, grassy plateau with scattered small trees and a rudimentary football field. [39] Ratinho had been one of the traffickers featured in the "Big Drug Fair" report from the previous year, which had resulted in a period of police crackdowns. Tim Lopes belonged to an almost-extinct group in Brazil, that of the investigative reporter. They burned Lopes's eyes with a cigarette. Lopes staggered away from the plate after getting beaned by a 91 mph fastball from Detroit Tigers starter Drew VerHagen in the third inning Thursday night. RBI. The Globo program Jornal Nacional subsequently televised a response, including an editorial by newscaster William Bonner criticizing Gomes's report. "[4], Lopes had heard that the gang of drug traffickers who controlled Vila Cruzeiro were putting on a baile funk that night. Nassif Elias Sobrinho, president of the Rio journalist union, recalled: "Tim Lopes was called because there was no one to hear their problems. (They are ordered in terms of the degree of their culpability in Lopes's torture and murder—with Elias Maluco being the gang leader, and André Capeta being his right-hand man. August 2, 2019: Seattle Mariners sent 2B Tim Lopes on a rehab assignment to Tacoma Rainiers.