The guy really is an idiot!
Escapee foiled with days left in jail
“I am a thief and an idiot” (in Portuguese) was forcibly tattooed on the forehead of Brazilian crook Ruan Rocha da Silva by two of his victims. He has since had some of it removed.
The stupidity of a Brazilian inmate who escaped from prison just days before he was to be released is written all over his face.
Ruan Rocha da Silva, who had “I am a thief and an idiot” tattooed across his forehead, now is serving more time, now in a maximum-security prison.
Silva, 23, was one of seven inmates who broke out of Sau Paulo’s Provisional Detention Center Belém 1 on Dec. 25 after capturing prison officers, Folha de S.Paulo reported.
Silva, whose forehead had been forcibly tattooed by two of his theft victims, was days shy of ending a four-year sentence for another robbery, the outlet said.
Apparently regretting his hasty decision to flee, he handed himself over to military police just two days later, the report said.
His telling head tattoo appears to be mostly covered up or gone in a photo of him wearing a Mickey Mouse sweatshirt and in cuffs after his latest arrest.
He has had some of the ink surgically removed, but some letters are still visible, other photos showed.
It is unclear when he had the work done to hide it.
More prison time
Silva was resentenced Friday to serve out an extended prison term in a “closed regime,” Brazil’s most restrictive form of incarceration, Folha de S.Paulo said, without specifying exactly how much extra jail time he received.
Silva was forcibly tattooed with the bizarre forehead ink by two men he tried to rob in 2017, according to a Daily Beast report.
Those men served time themselves for inflicting serious bodily injury and illegal embarrassment, the report said.
Silva was then jailed in February 2019, when he stole a cellphone and money from two emergencyroom employees, the reports added. He briefly escaped from custody in October of that year, but was listed as having “good” behavior before his latest shortlived jail break.