Brazil's former chief of intelligence, Alexandre Ramagem, has been detained in the United States.
He was one of seven people who alongside former President Jair Bolsonaro were convicted of plotting a military coup aimed at keeping him in power after he had lost the 2022 election.
Ramagem, who led Brazil's intelligence agency (Abin), was sentenced to 16 years in prison but was not in court when the guilty verdict was announced having fled the country - crossing into neighbouring Guyana by car before flying to the US.
Agents from the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) detained Ramagem in Orlando, Florida, on Monday.
ICE confirmed that Ramagem was in its custody but did not say why its agents had stopped him.
