The Colombian Police and the US Drug Control Administration (DEA) detained in Colombia in a joint operation 24 alleged members of the Clan del Golfo, the largest criminal organization in the country, of which ten have extradition orders to the US for drug trafficking.
Among those captured is, as reported on Wednesday by the Colombian Police in a statement, Alexander Simanca Cabrera, alias “Don José”, main ringleader of this group on the Caribbean coast and Magdalena Medio.
“This person had been the head of one of the most important drug trafficking organizations in the country, known as ‘Los Paisas’, dismembered more than six years ago,” said the director of the National Police, General Jorge Luis Vargas, who He pointed out that he now operated from a luxurious residential complex in Bogotá and continued “coordinating drug trafficking actions.”
Simanca, like many other members of the Clan del Golfo, including Dairo Antonio Úsuga, alias “Otoniel”, the leader of the gang captured last October, He belonged to the paramilitary United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, specifically to the Héroes de los Montes de María Bloc, from which he demobilized in 2005, and from there he came to “Los Paisas”.
Search in six locations
Along with Simanca, another 23 people who were under his command were also captured in the “Morgan” operation, which was carried out with raids and searches both in Bogotá and in the Caribbean cities of Cartagena, Santa Marta and Barranquilla, in the San Andrés archipelago. and Providencia, and in Cali.
The police reported that fourteen captured have been brought to justice in Colombia and the other ten were notified for extradition purposes, including “Don José”whose procedure is already in process.
They must respond to courts in New York and South Florida “for the shipment of approximately five tons of cocaine per month from San Andres and Cartagena to Central America with final destination in the United States and Europe,” the Police said in the statement.
“Otoniel”, the leader of the Clan del Golfo, was arrested on October 23 in an area of Urabá, and remains in Bogotá awaiting extradition to the United States.where he must answer before courts in New York and Florida for charges related to drug trafficking.
Against Úsuga there are 122 arrest warrants in Colombia and six convictions, including two of 40 and 50 years in prison, for aggravated homicide, homicide of a protected person, forced disappearance, forced displacement and illicit recruitment of minors. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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