With 500 Police Personnel And 22 Helicopters, Colombia Finaly Captures Its Most Wanted Drug Lord ‘Otoniel'(PHOTOS & VIDEO)

Colombia finaly captures its most wished drug lord, Dairo Antonio Usuga, also referred to as Otoniel, who was captured in a jungle raid involving 500 police personnel and 22 helicopters. President Ivan Duque in contrast it to the autumn of Pablo Escobar.

 

In photographs launched by the Colombian presidential press workplace, monitored by press informants, Otoniel is offered to the media at a army base.

Based on police, Otoniel was hiding within the jungle within the Uraba area, the place he’s from.

 

Colombian authorities stated on Saturday they captured Dairo Antonio Usuga, the nation’s greatest drug trafficker.

 

Usuga, higher identified by his alias “Otoniel,” is the alleged chief of the violent Clan Del Golfo cartel, which had management of main cocaine smuggling routes via thick jungles.

 

In comparison with seize of Escobar

Colombia’s President Ivan Duque in contrast Saturday’s arrest to the autumn of Pablo Escobar, the Colombian drug lord killed in a police shootout in 1993.

 

“This the toughest blow… to drug trafficking this century in our nation,” Duque stated.

 

“Alias Otoniel was essentially the most feared drug lord on the earth, a assassin of police, troopers, native activists,” he added.

 

The arrest was “the largest penetration of the jungle ever seen within the army historical past of our nation,” Duque stated.

 

Duque urged different members of the cartel to show themselves in or “really feel the complete weight of the legislation.”

 

Usuga stands accused of varied crimes, together with drug trafficking, homicide, extortion, kidnapping, conspiracy and unlawful recruiting of minors. He was on the US Drug Enforcement Administration’s most wished checklist.

 

The US State Division had provided as much as $5 million (€4.29 million) for data resulting in his arrest or conviction in 2009. US and British authorities have been additionally knowledgeable in regards to the particulars of the arrest.

 

Who’s ‘Otoniel’ Usuga?

 

 

The 50-year-old was born in Necocli and was the seventh of 9 youngsters to a rural household. At age 18, he joined a Marxist guerilla group that was later disbanded.

 

Within the 90s, he aligned himself with the Peasant Self-Defenders of Cordoba and Uraba (ACCU), which labored to guard farmers towards guerillas, and was additionally linked to drug trafficking. A few of these paramilitary teams then turned the Gulf clan.

 

Usuga took over the management of the clan from his brother, who was killed by the police in 2012.

 

He evaded arrest for a few years. Throughout this operation, about 500 cops and 22 helicopters have been deployed.

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