The functions of the 12 conquered wings of ‘Castor’

The wings of Digno Palomino and Jorge Eliécer Díaz Collazos, aka Castor, have been seriously injured as a result of the latest operations of the Barranquilla Metropolitan Police, in collaboration with the Prosecutor’s Office and the National Army, in which 22 alleged criminals had links to the criminal gangs controlled by those already mentioned.

12 of these, according to the authorities, belong to “Los Costeños de Cachetes”, a criminal structure that interferes with the neighborhoods of San Roque, Chiquinquirá, Montes, San José and the commercial sector of downtown Barranquilla. Judicial sources told EL HERALDO that Carlos Alberto Ortiz Blanco, alias Cachete, who took over the reins of ‘Los Costeños’ after the capture of Palomino and Díaz Collazos in Venezuela, and captured in 2020, “continues his criminal act from the prison in Popayán, where he coordinates the extortion of the commercial and business sector of the municipality of Barranquilla; Taking this into account, the operation in question begins with the aim of affecting and weakening this criminal structure in the Southeast and Central neighborhoods.

Likewise, the researcher indicated that this group would be led by alias JR, named Alirio Junior Uribe, who, since 2022, would comply with the orders of ‘Cachetes’, who apparently coordinates and orders the various extortions of large and small merchants. the sector and in addition he would have a sale of narcotics on Calle 34 with Carrera 36.

The source told this medium that there are indications of the planning and execution of extortion; death threats from calls; as well as launching pamphlets; selective killing; others performed randomly to generate terrorism (as would be the case with Villanueva); drug trafficking, and the use of pistols, revolvers, grenades, rifles, as well as the function that each of the members develops criminal actions.