On one of the main roads Guayaquil was murdered on prosecutor Cesar Suarezwho had done research into thearmed attack on TC Television channel on January 9, in the context of the wave of violence Ecuador. Also read: The United States Attorney’s Office is seeking 30 years in prison against Clíver Alcalá The officer was shot […]
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‘Los Capos’, drug traffickers with ties to the Jalisco Nueva Generación cartel, fall
In concurrent operations in Puerto Colombia, a municipality in the Barranquilla metropolitan area; Bucaramanga and in the city of Bogotá, three alleged members of a drug trafficking network called ‘Los Capos’ were captured. This is Diego Andrés Bayona Parra, alias Diego, alleged leader of the criminal network; Javier Alberto Cortés Mercado, alias Javi, who would […]
Extortion: Authorities take action, but the siege in Atlántico does not end
Three of the most powerful blows against the criminal structures dedicated to this crime took place in the second half of this year. In July, the police and the Public Prosecution Service, as part of an operation called ‘Fortaleza’, arrested four people accused of participating in the murder of the manager of the departmental collective […]
Changing drugstores: death sentence for youth in Atlantico
One of the recent cases is the attack where they took their lives Reinaldo Rafael Vallejo Merlano20 years old, in events that took place last April in the Galán neighborhood, in southern Barranquilla. According to information from the victim’s mother, he had been fighting with his father for four years. drug addiction and apparently his […]
Seventy killed and forty injured in Haiti as a result of armed conflict
Among the fatalities, according to the data, are 18 women and 2 minors, which also indicates that 12 women were injured. The humanitarian and security situation in many areas of Cité Soleil, which has a population of several hundred thousand, “has reached alarming levels,” Ocha said in a statement. Women and children are particularly exposed […]
Hard blows to criminal groups in B/quilla: 30 arrests in 45 days
Strong and accurate. These are the blows that the Barranquilla authorities have dealt against criminal structures that affect the city. According to a report by the Metropolitan Police, 30 members of these illegal organizations have been arrested in the past 45 days. This thanks to an articulate work with the prosecutor’s office, the armed forces […]
Control of the drug trafficking route, end of the ‘Tren de Aragua’ on the coast
the ‘Aragua Train‘ is part of the three transnational gangs that have spread terror in Bogotá and in different parts of the country in recent months. This structure is headed by Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, alias Niño Guerrero, from Tocorón Prison in Venezuela. Since the end of 2019, this criminal organization has established itself in […]
“We are investigating the possible existence of ‘Los Pepes'”: Colonel Urquijo
The warnings of the possible emergence of a new criminal structure have authorities in Barranquilla due to the fact that criminal actions in the capital of Atlántico by a group called ‘the Peppers’. would talk about selective killingsamong other things, from which drug trafficking and extortion would arise. That’s why EL HERALDO spoke to Colonel […]
Criminal gangs recruit minors from residential complexes
From the bosom of a house to a theater of war. This happens to minors living in Barranquilla and the metropolitan area, and was recently broadcast during a session of the District Council via a warning issued by members of the Atlantic Casualties Tableabout recruiting children and adolescents into criminal gangs, a hidden problem and […]
Year 2012 and year 2022: the extortion agreements with carriers
Between 2012 and 2013, formal and informal merchants, as well as several guilds, were in the city, including the conveyor belt, they were the target of intimidation by criminal gangs to make them pay the so-called ‘war aid’ tax. Driver murders Y mutilations of the people marked the threats. Ten years later, the same thing […]