Colombian President Iván Duque has celebrated the capture, “only comparable to the fall of Pablo Escobar.”
Colombian authorities Dairo Antonio Úsuga, alias ‘Otoniel’, was arrested on Saturday, leader of the Gulf Clan and the most wanted drug trafficker in the country, in a joint operation between the Army, the National Police and the Air Force in the Urabá region, in Antioquia.
The United States Government offered a reward for the kingpin of up to five million dollars (about four million euros), by alias ‘Otoniel’, 50 years old, on whom an extradition order from the United States weighs, two red circulars and one blue from Interpol, and 128 arrest warrants in Colombia.
According to the Colombian police, the arrest warrants for ‘Otoniel’ in Colombia include the crimes of “drug trafficking, extortion, homicide, forced displacement, arms trafficking, formation of armed groups, conspiracy to commit a crime and crimes against humanity.”
The president of Colombia, Iván Duque, has traveled to the place of arrest, where he celebrated the capture, which he considers “only comparable to the fall of Pablo Escobar in the nineties”.
For Duque, Úsuga’s arrest is “the hardest hit that has been dealt to drug trafficking in this century” in Colombia, accused as he is of sending tons of cocaine to Central America and the United States.
For her part, the mayor of Bogotá, Claudia López, has celebrated the arrest of the capo in a message on Twitter.
Congratulations to the Police, Army, Prosecutor’s Office and Govt. Nal for the capture of Otoniel. Ensuring that rural Colombia has peace is decisive for urban Colombia to have security and that we prevent drug trafficking from challenging the rule of law and sacrificing the lives of more generations. https://t.co/MDsyimprWb
– Claudia López ¿(@ClaudiaLopez) October 23, 2021
The capture operation left a deceased, a mayor of the Colombian Police, whom Duque wants to remember as “a hero who led, with his work, this great coup in favor of the Colombian people.”
The detainee is now at the headquarters of the Directorate of Criminal Investigation and Interpol in Bogotá.
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