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…
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…
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…
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…
Seventeen members of the “Los Paisas” drug trafficking gang were captured in two raids in Medellin and Cali, El Heraldo reported Friday. Among those arrested were six members of state…
Police arrested businessman Felipe Sierra, an alleged associate of Colombian drug trafficker “Don Mario,” in Medellin Thursday morning, reports W Radio. Earlier in November, the Supreme Court ordered Sierra and…
More than 150 young members of Medellin gangs on Thursday signed a peace pact in which they agreed to stop committing acts of violence and turn their weapons over to the…
The Colombian national police announced that they are offering a $1 million reward for information leading to the capture of Medellin drug lord Ericson Vargas, alias “Sebastian.” The announcement comes…
In the last week Colombian police have arrested 103 people who are believed to belong to various drug trafficking organizations around Colombia. Of those arrested people, 67 are thought to…
A Security Council meeting, called to address the gang warfare ravaging some of Medellin’s poorest suburbs, announced new measures that it hopes will halt the violence plaguing the central Colombian…