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Police nab key FARC cocaine suppliers

by Brett Borkan June 20, 2010

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Colombian authorities arrested the main suppliers of cocaine to the FARC’s Southern Block and paramilitary group “Los Rastrojos,” Radio Santa Fe reported Sunday.

According to reports, Jose Miguel Alvarez Tonguino, alias “Mani,” and nine of his associates were arrested in a joint operation by the Colombian judicial police (Dijin), the Inspector General’s office, and the United States’ Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

According to Dijin, Alvarez Tonguino, who was arrested in the department of Valle, was in charge of distributing cocaine to Central and North America, and was a key associate to Edgar Tovar, the head of the FARC’s 48th Front who was killed in the department of Putumayo.

In addition to running drug operations for the FARC and Los Rastrojos, the arrested individuals are also being charged with murder, conspiracy to commit an aggravated offense, extortion, torture, manufacture and possession of narcotics, and manufacture, trafficking and possession of arms.

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