Úsuga, alias “Otoniel”, is the largest cocaine trafficker in Colombia and head of the so-called ‘Gulf clan’.
Dairo Antonio Úsuga David, alias Otoniel, 50, was alone. He had been abandoned by his two henchmen, aka Machi and Chiva; he was in a thicket, he had not eaten for a day and had hardly had any water. That is the official information after the capture of the most famous drug trafficker in Colombia.
Úsuga, aka Otoniel, is the largest cocaine trafficker in Colombia and head of the so-called “clan of the Gulf”. Otoniel you have diabetes, a disease that affected your kidneys; In fact, the orthopedic mattress that he installed in each of the five farms where he rotated his nights of rest became a fundamental piece to confirm his presence in a ranch located in the La Pita village, in Turbo, Antioquia, according to the police investigations that have been published in Colombian media such as El Tiempo.
According to the police investigator, to detect the location of Otoniel The intelligence activities of the institution were key, which managed to establish some two weeks ago peasant movements that carried “food and supplies to a certain point.” Food that he had to consume due to his illness.
This is how the most dangerous criminal in Colombia was reviewed. Defeated by legality, the articulated work of the public force and demonstrating that #He who lives by the sword will die by the sword. This is the path that awaits all criminals, no one is above the constitution and the law. pic.twitter.com/gHxgNjM87I
– Iván Duque ???????? (@IvanDuque) October 25, 2021
The zero hour of Operation Osiris
It was 5 a.m. on Friday, October 22. “This operation is historic for the Public Force because all the Forces and the Police were articulated, some 800 men and women, 500 on the ground. In addition, they were attentive and supporting personnel from the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) of the United Kingdom and the CIA and ICE of the United States, ”said a private source on a daily basis. Time.
In each transfer, Otoniel He carried his two dogs, some hunters and two horses. “The dogs had been trained to warn him of any strange person or movement. They warned him on many occasions of the presence of the Public Force, ”said one of the National Police investigators in charge of the case.
The two horses, which he had well cared for, were his vital weapons to flee the area when alerted to the presence of the authorities. The Police have been with the Operation Agamemnon, in search of Otoniel; Several coups have taken place against the Gulf clan, in which 22 police officers lost their lives.
The most dangerous drug trafficker in Colombia was arrested at a point called Cerro Yoki, in the jurisdiction of Necoclí, a municipality in the department of Antioquia, where he had been surrounded for months.
“There is information that was provided by members of the Gulf clan that served for the capture,” said Colombian Defense Minister Diego Molano, in statements to the media from the National Army Brigade in Carepa, Antioquia (northwest).
On Friday at 5 in the morning, in 22 helicopters, 500 uniformed people were transferred to the area, “patrols were made up of ten soldiers, an Intelligence policeman and another from the Judicial Police, in charge of sweeping the place to the millimeter.”
For the first time, the Halcón helicopter of the National Police was used in this type of operation, “which thanks to its heat chamber located Otoniel and his two trusted men at a certain point and began his persecution, “said the source.
The uniformed men located 57 points of mobility for the capo and blocked them, achieving his capture on Saturday, October 23, at around three in the afternoon.
His capture, according to Colombian President Iván Duque, is “the hardest blow that drug trafficking has been dealt in this century in our country and is only comparable to the fall of Pablo Escobar in the 1990s.”
Requested in the United States
The director of the Colombian National Police, General Jorge Luis Vargas, assured this Monday that Úsuga “will be extradited to the United States,” although the terms or when it will occur are unknown.
This Sunday the director of the Police, General Jorge Luis Vargas, confirmed that a reward will be paid for the capture of Úsuga David, who will be extradited to the United States.
Minister Molano assured that the reward that the Government offered for Otoniel of up to 3,000 million pesos (almost 800,000 dollars) and that the United States will do the same with its, which amounted to 5 million dollars. (I)
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