An anti-mafia agent from the United States provided information that allowed the Colombian Police to identify him. A powerful network of politicians, engineers, banana dealers and even doctors teaming up with dangerous drug lords to ship cocaine shipments to Florida.
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The information showed that 380 kilos of cocaine was stored in a private condominium in Pozos Colorados (Santa Marta), very close to the beach. They would be camouflaged on a ship that was the first to sail to the Bahamas and Costa Rica.
The police went to the scene and the operation was successful. There was a second raid four months later..
This time, it was in a luxury three-story beach house with a private elevator, located in the middle of the bay in the tourism sector Reservas de El Rodadero. there was no medicine but a cell phone full of important information.
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EL TIEMPO had exclusive access to the file shared by the Bahamas, United States and Colombian authorities, where the luxury home is stated to be occupied by Diego Marcel Manrique Hernández of Ibaguer.There were four high-end cars parked on the property.
The property, worth 1,200 million pesos, was raided by several bullets 24 hours after Manrique’s body was discoveredIn the heart of the Caribbean trunk, in the village of Las Tinajas in the Bonda district of Santa Marta.
Police determined that the man was known by the mafia nickname ‘Ingeniero’.
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Also, after an investigation by the DEA, He was caught for drug trafficking in 2016 and even placed under house arrest in Santa Marta.
But the most important information was on the terrace of his house on the beach, in the barbecue area. Some documents and a cell phone with video and audio were hidden in the bathroom drawer.
In one of the voices A man identified as the ‘coordinator’ asked another man to record the exact location of a ship’s air duct where they were to tie a shipment of cocaine with powerful magnets..
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“The video was proof for cocaine owners that the consignment really did leave” An official from the Police Traffic and Transport Directorate (Ditra), headed by General Juan Alberto Libreros, who took over the investigation, told EL TIEMPO.
And added The documents included the name of the Norwegian-flagged ship that was to be contaminated with drugs from the Sierra or brought from the criminal organization Cauca ‘los Pachenca, the heirs of Hernán’s paramilitary bloc. giraldo.
The papers also had tips from Samaritan professional leaders, including a councilor from Magdalene.illegally investing in a ‘quota’ to crown the shipment.
The investigation also revealed that the network paid port authorities for navigation charts and information about ships’ high seas.including their destination.
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“They pay 5 million pesos for each navigation chart”, the officer pointed.
According to the documents found in the ‘Engineer’s home, one of the ships belonging to the Norwegian flagged Hoegh AutoLiners company, carrying 21,000 tons of cargo, has been reached.
Departing from England, the ship hopped in Santa Marta after touching the ports of Belgium, Rotterdam and Spain, according to the logbook..
Colombian Police had to resort to cutting-edge technology and international cooperation to track the boat bound for Nassau (Bahamas). where the ship carried high-end cars, yellow machines, and cocaine fastened with magnets.
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There, last May, most of the cache was seized and 22 people were arrested: 21 Chinese, one Filipino and one woman.Officials are clear that the crew are aware of the additional load they are carrying.
They also seem to have deciphered why the bodies of stray dogs are showing up in Santa Marta. According to the researchers, after analyzing the cocaine caches, they were found to be impregnated with an oil that appeared to have been extracted from the animals’ guts..
The goal is to prevent police dogs from sniffing channels where cocaine is camouflaged. It was also discovered that the caches were in the GPS location to control the cocaine and know exactly when it was removed from the ship.
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Part of the criminal organization is based in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.
One of its alleged leaders was identified as Freddy Castillo Carrillo, alias Pinocchio, who was serving his sentence in the United States for drug trafficking..
The man known as the social leader in Santa Marta, Last January 19, he was caught in an exclusive area of the city of Brunete, 40 minutes from Madrid (Spain), where he had been living for 6 months. Colombian authorities await his deportation to stand trial for crimes and conspiracy to murder.
But the investigation is just beginning. In addition to other members of the gang, which has 300 men with guns (excluding the city militia) and is involved in extortion and crime in Santa Marta, their leading associates are missing..
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EL TIEMPO found that one of them has an emergency room and laboratory on the Beach, as well as a clinic that issues certificates of sickness so drug lords can get house arrest..
Many of them have a team of the best lawyers who have ever barred their trial.
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