‘Rastrojos’ founder’s attorney to be replaced due to conflict of interest
The defense attorney for a founding member of the “Rastrojos” drug trafficking...
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Top member of ‘Los Rastrojos’ captured in Medellin
A leader of Colombia’s largest neo-paramilitary drug gang “Los Rastrojos” was...
Chicago ‘Interrupters’ eager to cure violence in Colombia
Cure Violence, a Chicago-based organization that has strategically reduced violence in some of the more violent areas in the U.S, have Colombia on their list of potential international partners. The Cure Violence project that...
House arrest of Medellin capo to be re-examined
Medellin judge calls for a secondary medical examination of the convicted drug gang leader Alirio de Jesus Rendon Hurtado, alias “El Cebollero,” reported newspaper El Tiempo Monday. After Rendon was released from prison and...
Top crime suspects taken down in northern Colombia
Colombian authorities captured over 25 alleged criminal gang leaders and members Thursday, through special Operation Dignity as a part of Plan Troy, reports Colombian media. Operation Dignity successfully captured four alleged...
Elusive criminal and gang leader recaptured in Medellin
Medellin gang leader Jeison Smith Velasquez, alias “El Rolo,” was recaptured after evading authorities from Colombia’s Antioquian city for almost eight months. Smith Velasquez, who is believed to be a leader of...
Man arrested for murdering young child in southwest Colombia
A young man has been arrested after killing a six-year-old child in Colombia’s southwestern Huila department, local media reported Monday. The event took place in the La Paz neighborhood of the Neiva municipality, where...
50 houses damaged in Soacha gang dispute
More than 50 residences were damaged in a gang confrontation in the municipality of Soacha, Cundinamarca department, Caracol TV reported Thursday. The dispute occurred in the Quintas de Santa Ana area of the city, where hundreds...
Police arrest ‘Los Paisas’ leader in Cartagena
Police have captured drug-trafficker “Chiqui”, an alleged ringleader of “Los Paisas” criminal gang based on the islands of San Andres and Providencia, RCN Radio reported on Thursday. Commander of the...
FARC teaching ‘Los Rastrojos’ to make landmines: Police
Police have said that the FARC are teaching criminal gang “Los Rastrojos” how to make handmade landmines, reported RCN Radio. The statement comes after police found 1,200 land mines in the Bolivar area of the west...
Medellin authorities capture 10 suspected gang members
Medellin authorities have arrested ten alleged gang members who operated in the poor west of the city, newspaper El Espectador reported Monday. The nine men and one woman, detained with the assistance of the police group GOES,...
Suspected ‘Los Urabeños’ gang members captured
Colombia’s army and security agency DAS arrest 19 suspected members of the gang “Los Urabeños” in north-west Antioquia, RCN Radio reported Friday. During the operation in the municipality of Yali, the army...
