Overseas network on October 24, local time On Saturday (23rd), Colombian President Duque announced that the Colombian government arrested the country's big drug lord Dairo Antonio Usuga on the same day. On the same day, the Colombian government released footage of Ursuga's arrest.
According to the comprehensive CNN (CNN), French 24 television and other foreign media reports, the Colombian government sent 500 soldiers, special forces members, police officers and 22 helicopters on the 23rd according to the intelligence provided by the United States and the United Kingdom, to raid the forest where Usuga was hiding, and broke through 8 layers of defense, and finally arrested him in the suburbs of Kokli in the northwestern province of Antioquia. During the operation, a police officer of the Colombian Government was killed in the line of duty.
Duke issued a statement on the 23rd announcing the arrest of Ursuga, believing that this operation is the most significant victory of the Colombian drug crackdown in this century. Duke also demanded that criminals, including drug lords, voluntarily surrender or face annihilation.
The Colombian government also released the picture of Ursuga's arrest on the same day. In the picture, Ursuga, dressed in black and black pants and water shoes, and handcuffed in both hands, is escorted to a military base in Necocly by the Colombian government for a press conference.
Ursuga, 50, is the leader of Colombia's largest drug cartel, the Gulf Gang, and the head of a right-wing militia. After the militia reached a peace agreement with the Colombian government in 2006, Ursuga refused to disarm and began a drug business in the Gulf of Uraba in northern Colombia, smuggling drugs across forests to the United States.
Ursuga had previously been on the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) wanted list, which offered a $5 million bounty appealing to insiders to provide clues to arrest him. The federal court in Manhattan, New York, indicted Ursuga in early 2009 on charges of drug trafficking and funding of right-wing militias. Federal courts in Brooklyn and Miami also accused Usuga of smuggling at least 73 tons of cocaine to the United States between 2003 and 2014 via Venezuela and Guatemala.
According to foreign media reports, Ursuga will be extradited to the Federal Court for the Southern District of New York to stand trial.
Source: Overseas Network