Colombian boss of Clan del Golfo and ‘Otoniel’s’ cousin falls

The Colombian police caught in a rural area of ​​the department of Antioquia (northwest) Jacob Rodríguez Úsuga, alias ‘Atilio‘chief of the Gulf Clanwho, according to investigations, sent up to 15 tons of cocaine per month to the USA and Europe.

The director of the Colombian police, General William René Salamanca, said this Wednesday at a press conference that the operation that ended with the capture of Rodríguez was carried out by special commandos in the hamlet of Caracolí.

“It was a professional and clean operation, with full respect for human rights,” said General Salamanca.

During the police operation, which included navigating through dangerous swamps in the dark, the commandos noticed the presence of a minor, the son of an alleged drug dealer, and immediately provided him with special protection and restored his rights.

Rodríguez’s capture came after months of intelligence work as the drug trafficker alternated between high-end trucks and pack animals, always carrying a fake ID.

Likewise, the criminal dressed his security men in peasant clothing, including a machete on his belt, to try to detect the presence of the police up to 3 kilometers around.

in christmas prelude, It was learned that he arrived at the area where he was captured to take part in the festivities, which included horse races and cockfights.

With capture alias ‘Atilio’according to General Salamanca, it culminates a 16-year criminal history Dairo Antonio Úsuga David, alias ‘Otoniel’detained by the institution and extradited to the United States, where he is serving a 45-year sentence.

A senior officer recalled that Rodríguez was one of the confidants of Otoniel’s successor, Jobanis Ávila Villadiego, alias ‘Chiquito Malo’.

The arrested person was in charge of transporting drugs by speedboat to some countries in Central America and the Caribbean, where he had secret warehouses with a capacity of up to 20 tons of cocaine, and where he maintained cash flows of more than HRK 1 million. dollars a week.

For the international trade in caches, she connected with networks of drug dealers in Europe, responsible for receiving, marketing and distributing illicit substances on that continent.

This result of the authorities, in which four mobile phones and a digital memory were confiscated, is part of the offensive against “Gulf Clan”the main criminal group in the country.