After a research work carried out since 2010, an Attorney of the Anti-narcotics National Unity and Maritime Interdiction, in joint action with foreign authorities and Dijin of Police, allowed dismantling a network formed by 16 people, apparently , engaged in the production, marketing and international trafficking of drugs destined to international cartels that Finally took them to cities in the United States and Europe.

The facts occurred on last November 26, when anti-narcotics police investigators developed the operation called Crystal green. After several months of follow-up, the Prosecutor’s Office obtained material elements that allowed to establish that the Organization, led by Hector Daza Roa, alias Tarantula, had managed to form a structure with clandestine laboratories for the production of cocaine in the municipalities of Tauramena, Villanueva, Monterrey, San Luis de Gaceno and rural area of Yopal (Casanare) and Paratebueno (Cundinamarca) and Arauca.

At the end of the production process, substances were transported by land to the State of Apure (Venezuela) and from there, with a fleet of small planes sent by different routes to countries such as Honduras, Haiti, Suriname, Guyana Islands and Dominican Republic; to reach illegal markets in North America and Europe.

The Prosecutor’s Office also established that the Organization had money exchange companies in Cucuta and other cities, which served as a facade for the entry of foreign currency. Similary, that the obtained resources were invested in luxurious properties in Bogota and in vans or vehicles of high range.

In Development of the investigative stage and different operating were destroyed four planes, six laboratories with 800 kilos of chemical inputs and seized 950 kilos of cocaine.

The hearings were conducted before a judge with guarantee control functions of Yopal (Casanare), which gave assurance measures such as suspects of charges of conspiracy to commit a crime for purposes of trafficking of narcotic drugs and substances for processing narcotics; against Carlos Guillermo Cataño Márquez, alias Aloha, Coordinator of pilots of air routes, representative of a firm dedicated to aviation in Bogota and Hector Guillermo Daza Roa, alias Tarantula, ringleader in charge of the clandestine laboratories construction and the search for the clandestine airstrips.

The decision, by the same behaviors, also affects Johan Sebastián Moreno Sierra, alias Pablo; Federman Camelo Rubio, alias Tito; Hernando Díaz Guarín, Yorland Norberto Morales Rojas, alias Ferrero; Jose Luis Morales Fernandez, alias el Gordo. Catches of the above took place in Bogotá.

Were also sheltered: Sandra María Escalante Mantilla, alias la Doña and Jaime Edwin Piñeros Sánchez, alias Aguapas, apprehended in the city of Arauca; Israel Vera palacios, alias Barriga, in Monterrey (Casanare); the brothers Lindon Trinidad alias Chicharra and Cervando, and Germán Cubides Aguirre, alias Picotazo, captured in Villanueva (Casanare) and Campohermoso (Boyaca); Alexander Lozano Vanegas, alias Chupo, captured in Cumaral (Meta); Wilfredo palaces Ramirez and José Gregorio Barahona Amaya, retained in Chivor (Boyaca).

Accused not raided to the charges imputed by the prosecution and were sent to prison in Yopal (Casanare).