The group took as many syringes and vaccine doses as they could find, then transported the nurses and equipment to one of the poorest favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Salgueiro.  A Brazilian drug trafficker has been praised on social media as a modern-day Robin Hood after he kidnapped two nurses, stole vaccines and syringes and ordered the medical staff to inoculate residents in one of the poorest areas in the country’s southeast. The gang then watched over as the nurses administered vaccines to the community over the course of two hours. https://t.co/2RbWfUwv3K — Oga Jeffo (@J_Etse) February 14, 2018 
 
 In their report, the two health workers said the kidnappers were not aggressive, saying they only carried out their actions because many in the Salgueiro pueblo were not able to visit immunization centers to get their yellow fever shot. Related: People are beating monkeys to death in Brazil amid panic over yellow fever 
 
 The drug gang leader, known on the street as 2N, held hostage two nurses from a vaccination center before transporting them and their equipment to one of the poorest favelas in Rio de Janeiro. At the same time, law enforcement increased the reward for information leading to Gomez’s arrest to the equivalent of $3,000. News of the gang’s action went viral last week on social media, with 2N praised as a “modern-day Robin Hood.” 
 
 State deputy Carlos Minc, a former Minister of Environment under Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s presidency, also took to Twitter to comment that the act was a “public service.” 
 
 The Municipal Health Secretariat of Rio de Janeiro has said they will open an administrative process to investigate the incident. His most recent gesture of generosity, to combat yellow fever, which has swept poverty-stricken areas of Brazil, has seen him lauded primarily as a hero rather than a villain.
– Wanted gang leader Thomaz Viera Gomez has been dubbed Brazil's very own Robin Hood, thanks to his alleged involvement in what may be one of the most unconventional kidnappings ever, reports Newsweek. That's because the two men Gomez, or "2N," is accused of kidnapping on Jan. 27 are nurses who were ordered to vaccinate residents of one of Rio de Janeiro's slums. According to TV station Telesur, Gomez and his cronies stole syringes and yellow fever vaccines from a vaccination center before forcing the two nurses to leave with them. They then took them to the Salgueiro favela, or slum, where they were instructed to administer vaccinations over two hours. The nurses were then returned to their place of work. Brazil faced an outbreak of yellow fever, spread by infected mosquitoes, last year. And though government officials said it was over by September, more than half of 53 deaths from yellow fever since July occurred last month, per Tech Times. The nurses told local media the kidnappers weren't aggressive and had only the poor residents of Salgueiro in mind because they didn't have access to vaccination centers. Former environment minister Carlos Minc went as far as to describe his latest act as a "public service," per Telesur. In another incident lending to his Robin Hood persona, Gomez is said to have caused a riot last March after throwing bunches of cash to locals in Salgueiro.