It is still a surprise that in an operation to dismantle a network that mixed drugs and fentanyl, a 73-year-old woman was arrested.

The arrest took place in Bogotá, Colombia, where the organization was under investigation for offering synthetic drugs in the bar areas of Rafael Uribe Uribe, Suba, Ciudad Bolívar, Kennedy and Puente Aranda, Noticias RCN reported.

Seventy-year-old Blanca Rosa Betancourt Bedoya was introduced as an alias “La Abuela” and Noticias Caracol’s headline referred to her this way: “La Abuela,” a 73-year-old woman, led a gang selling gummies laced with fentanyl and tusi in Bogota. ”

The network brought the dangerous substances and their mixtures in the form of gummies to schools, universities and entertainment venues in Bogotá, Colombian media reported.

The drugs were also distributed in Chía, Cundinamarca.

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Leonor Merchán, director of the Bogotá prosecutor’s office

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The role of alias “The Grandmother”

The Colombian Public Prosecutor’s Office announced on Thursday, November 23, 2023, the results of the operation against the network called Olimpo, which left behind four prisoners, including the alias “La Abuela”.

This older adult “could be the main leader of the organization, a drug trafficking network “reportedly one of the largest manufacturers and distributors of so-called synthetic drugs in Bogotá.” .

The institution said “the evidence” was collected during almost a year of investigative activities.

The seventy-year-old would be “responsible for the production of illegal substances and for coordinating the retail sales of so-called pink cocaine (2CB or Tusi), LSD, ecstasy, marijuana, cocaine and their derivatives,” the Public Prosecution Service reported.

The woman was charged along with Sergio Torres Borja, Félix Mejía Garavito and Bryan Pérez Araujo for “the crimes of trafficking, production and possession of narcotic drugs and conspiracy to commit a crime.”

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secret conversations

In several conversations known to investigators, the prosecutor’s office notes, “it was determined that these people apparently obtained fentanyl and other opioids or pain medications, which were mixed with synthetic drugs to enhance their harmful effects.”

A telephone tap was published in Noticias Caracol:

In another phone call, the seventy-year-old alias Esteban allegedly said that “35” came from the package of rosé (tusi medicine).

During the procedure, the Public Prosecution Service expanded: More than 500 pills of various synthetic drugs were seized55 cell phones, bags of cocaine and marijuana, cash and a traumatic firearm.

(JO)