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Seven alleged members of a criminal gang involved in the sale of narcotics were sent to prison

A judge in Montería issued a prison sentence against seven alleged members of the Organized Armed Group (Grupo Armado Organizado GAO for its initials in Spanish) Clan del Golfo for their alleged responsibility in the distribution of hallucinogenic substances. The...

About three tons of cocaine were seized in two gigantic ELN drug complexes

The Office of the Attorney General and National Army found the laboratories in Nariño. The production and drug trafficking structure of these two groups is valued at 340 billion. As part of the strategy to strengthen the institution in the...

Officers on active duty and former immigration officers wanted for drug trafficking offenses were arrested with a view to extradition

Four alleged members of a criminal network called "Los Infiltrados", wanted with a view to extradition by the United States for trafficking cocaine were brought before the Office of the Attorney General.  These people were arrested in a joint operation...

Alias ​​Monster, an alleged drug trafficker liaison between the criminal structure ‘La Oficina’ and the Mexican cartels, was arrested

Fernando Varela Granada, alias Monster, the alleged leader of an international drug trafficking network wanted with a view to extradition to the United States, was placed under the authority of the Attorney General.   This person would be the liaison...

A shipyard in which a semi-submersible was being built to transport up to eight tons of cocaine was discovered

The Office of the Attorney General, through the judicial police groups of the Delegate Office against Organized Crime, received information about a place located in the rural area of Buenaventura in which semi-submersibles were being built in order to...

Arrested ‘Los Ruger’, a criminal organization involved in drug trafficking activities in Sibaté and Soacha (Cundinamarca)

The arrests were carried out in Pasto (Nariño), Sibaté and Villeta (Cundinamarca). At the request of the Office of the Attorney General, a supervisory judge issued  a prison sentence for seven ( 7) of the ten (10) alleged members of a...

Arrested extraditable people wanted by the United States for drug trafficking offenses

Edilson Ordóñez Campo and Hugo Alejandro Torrijos Medina, Colombian citizens wanted by the United States justice with a view to extradition, were turned over to the Office of the Attorney General.  Ordóñez Campo is required to appear in court before...

Member of the criminal structure involved in drug trafficking in Guática (Risaralda) was sentenced

In a virtual hearing in which the court pronounced the sentence, the Second Criminal Court of the Special Circuit of Pereira found Yesica Roa Mejía criminally liable for the crimes of aggravated criminal conspiracy and drug trafficking, manufacturing or...

The Office of the Attorney General strengthens its investigative strategy against the drug trafficking during the sanitary emergency

The Office of the Attorney General planned special actions to make progress in investigations against drug trafficking organizations and pursue them with determination during the period of preventive isolation that was decreed to control the spread of Covid-19.  The capabilities...

Arrested four people who allegedly transported cocaine and marijuana in a boat

The Office of the Attorney General charged before a supervisory judge, the Nicaraguan citizens Nimrod Manuel Coper Sambola, Kerwin Lindel Sandoval Allen; the Costa Rican citizen Jorge Enrique Villareal Calderón and the Colombian citizen Alfredo Renteria Caicedo. These four men...