Colombia’s national police captured the second highest-ranking member of the Oficina de Envigado Friday, one week after the arrests of three other leaders from the powerful drug cartel. Police raided…
Police arrested a suspected top member of Colombian crime syndicate the “Rastrojos” Wednesday. Ivan Dario Barrero Acevedo, alias “Pizarro,” was captured in the southwestern Valle del Cauca department, home to…
Authorities said Monday they have arrested a suspected ringleader of the “Rastrojos” just north of Colombia’s second largest city Medellin. The 26-year-old “Tetero” is believed to be a ringleader of…
Colombia’s National Police (DIJIN) have arrested three suspected top-ranking members of the Oficina de Envigado, one of Colombia’s most powerful drug gangs, reported local media Friday. The cartel members were…
A Colombian judge convicted 44 former members of the Popular Revolutionary Antiterrorist Army (ERPAC), a neo-paramilitary organization mostly active in southeast Colombia, reported Colombian newspaper El Tiempo Friday. The men were…
In a busy day in Colombian courts, 53 people belonging to several major drug gangs were sent to prison. Colombian authorities dealt a massive blow to neo-paramilitary group the Urabeños,…
Colombia’s newly-named police director issued a warning to drug lords Monday, after announcing one the country’s biggest kingpins has turned himself over to U.S. authorities. According to local reports soon…
Argentina’s security minister said Colombian drug traffickers operating in the country pose a growing threat, reported local media Thursday. Speaking at a South American regional security conference in the northern…
The United States government denied reports that the leader of the Rastrojos drug trafficking organization had turned himself over to U.S. authorities, according to Colombian Justice Minister Juan Carlos Esguerra, reported…