A strong component of agents from the Dijín Police and the FBI They caught him while he was traveling in one of their high-end trucks on the road from the municipality of Villeta (Cundinamarca) to the city of Bogotá.
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Everything Its capture by the square millimeter will take place in the most secret way, so that no one will suspect that the unit has been mobilized. This would have made possible the arrest that took place 7 days ago.
The man, who was wanted to be extradited by Puerto Rico, was seen as one of the biggest threats to the United States.
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About José Orlando Buitrago Rodríguez, alias Tito el Borracho, is an invisible drug trafficker who was exposed in 2023 when an investigation by the FBI and Dijín revealed an extensive criminal history, which allowed him to be classified as one of the most notorious drug traffickers. Traffickers wanted by the FBI worldwide “Due to their criminal ties and ability to ship cocaine out of Colombia.”
‘Tito’ according to files “In 2003, he quietly began his criminal activities by joining the transnational criminal organization known as ‘Los Burros’. There he was carrying out minor orders given to the leaders of the ‘drug family’ clan.
This clan was ruled by his cousin. Huber Oswaldo Buitrago Ruiz and his brother, Ángel María Buitrago Vacca, were captured in December 2012 and extradited to Puerto Rico. His tentacles had criminal interference in the United States, Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico and the Caribbean.
“After the criminal network of Los Burros was dismantled, “Tito el Borracho”, assuming leadership but as an independent body with scope to create laboratories or cocaine crystallization facilities, took over and took control of money laundering, assets, production laboratories, routes and connections of drug traffickers through whom they supplied drugs. Dominican Republic and Curacao“It was finally dismantled in 2012,” officials said in a statement.
According to research, Alias Tito had criminal societies with ringleaders Organized Armed Groups that have committed and continue to commit crimes in the Catatumbo area, such as the EPL and ELN.
“There were various crops and laboratories for the production of cocaine hydrochloride in that area and obtained the highest percentage of pure cocaine to be shipped from there. “There are transatlantic routes abroad from the coastal regions of Colombia,” said Colonel Edwin Masleider Urrego Pedraza, Director of Criminal Investigation and Interpol..
EL TIEMPO learned from business records that Buitrago Rodríguez There are several companies in its name dedicated to the marketing and repair of heavy machinery.
And the appearance of a businessman made him appear to society and the authorities as an ordinary citizen.but in reality this man was the largest supplier of cocaine to the largest drug traffickers in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.
“He had Asian contacts and associates who helped him launder money by using third parties to lose track of money through transfers. “It comes from Asia electronically and then the money already enters our country legally,” officials said.
Judicial sources told him: THEN this man was traveling in luxury cars and at the time he was caught he was in a double cab Toyota worth 400 million pesos..
During capture, Buitrago Rodríguez was holding a Brazilian-made 9 mm caliber pistol. 3 suppliers and 27 cartridges were seized.
This person was placed at the disposal of the administration The Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office of International Relations is waiting for the necessary procedures to be taken to extradite him to the USA.
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