Not-so-superhero: Caped ‘Batman crook’ is arrested wearing bizarre costume with mask, Dark Knight gauntlets and even batarangs after he ‘broke into a man’s house and attacked him’ in Brazil

• Rodrigo Rodrigues da Silva is accused of attempted murder in Parnaiba, Brazil
• He broke into a home and beat a man with an iron bar 
• But he was dressed up like the Caped Crusader when police arrested him 

A wannabe superhero has been arrested as a murder suspect by Brazilian police after he was found allegedly trying to kill a man during a break-in while seemingly dressed as Batman. 

Rodrigo Rodrigues da Silva is accused of trying to kill a man while breaking into a property in Parnaiba, northeast Brazil, on Monday. 

He battered his victim’s chest and legs with an iron bar while donning a long flowing coat and a facemask that barely covered the upper half of his face, until he woke up and began fighting back. 

The caped crook fled the scene, but was later picked up by Brazilian police, who managed to find a stash of improvised weapons and devices on him, including bladed gauntlets, a utility belt, a knife and several ‘batarangs’.

When asked for his name, he reportedly told police he went by ‘The Punisher of Parnaiba.’

Rodrigo Rodrigues da Silva (pictured, right) is accused of trying to kill a man while breaking into a property in Parnaiba, northeast Brazil

He was found carrying a knife and several seemingly homemade ‘batarangs’

The bizarre arrest comes after police in Peru arrested a drug gang and took thousands of bags of cocaine and marijuana off the streets while dressed as Marvel characters. 

Three of the Avengers – Spider-Man, Captain America and Thor – were joined by Catwoman in a blending of the Marvel and DC for the undercover police operation in Peru’s capital of Lima.

The operation, dubbed ‘Marvel’, saw the four disguised police officers walking nonchalantly down a street while pretending to be doing promotion for a Halloween concert in the San Juan de Lurigancho neighbourhood of Lima on Saturday.

But upon arriving at a specific house, Captain America borrowed Thor’s hammer to break down a steel door, allowing 10 backup police officers to enter and arrest three men and a woman.

The occupants, taken by surprise, at first thought it was a Halloween joke, police said in a statement on Tuesday.

He battered his victim’s chest and legs with an iron bar while donning a long flowing coat and a facemask that barely covered the upper half of his face

When asked for his name, he reportedly told police he went by ‘The Punisher of Parnaiba’

But they soon realised that it was no joke when Spider-Man began pinning one man to the floor.

Police seized 3,250 small packages of basic cocaine paste – a crude extract of coca leaf – as well as 287 bags of cocaine and 127 of marijuana.

One kilo of cocaine paste sells for roughly $380 (£330) in Peru, while a kilo of cocaine hydrochloride, the purest form, sells for about $1,000 (£869).

Locals crowded outside the house as they watched in astonishment at Spider-Man, Captain America, Thor and Catwoman – all now wearing police vests – led the four handcuffed suspects out to a police vehicle.

The tactic of launching raids, particularly to take down drug gangs using operatives in costumes, is a common tactic of Peruvian police to assure the element of surprise which, they police say, has brought some notable successes in recent years. 

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