Trips through Italy, France, Germany and even Machu Picchu It became one of the clues for federal agents to locate a powerful Dominican heroin trafficker in Colombia. already incarcerated in a United States prison.
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The freshest information on ‘Peluche’, as the mob knows, He was liberated on February 13, 2015.and said he would return to his country to reopen a nightclub known as Tobby’s bar.
Again, whistleblowers assured him that he had landed in Colombia since 2016 and returned to his illegal adventures.Despite telling the Florida Southern District judge that his conviction was an injustice.
about Teddy Alberto Lizon Barias, ‘Peluche’, 42, apprehended by the Prosecutor’s CTI for extradition only 7 days ago in a street south of Pereira.
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TIME investigated his case and found that, according to the case against him, his arrival in the country coincided with an increase in domestic heroin consumption in the Coffee District. and shipping of this drug to the United States.
in 2020 The capital of Risaralda ranked second after Armenia in heroin consumption. The drugs are distributed by networks controlled by the ‘la Cordillera’ criminal gang, at the lowest prices on the market.
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Federal agents are confident that Dominik will be responsible for some of the rise of that deadly white powder. On the Coffee Axis.
According to the file EL TIEMPO has access to, alias Peluche claimed to be an investor in cryptocurrencies. In fact, this is how he presented himself in his networks.
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Y Opened two stores at home in Poblado II in January 2019, A strata 3 neighborhood in the center of Pereira.
He said he sells leather clothing for specialty stores from there. But He led a lifestyle that did not suit his merchant appearance: he and his family were transported in luxury trucks. and in April 2022, the Dominican appeared at Pereira’s fourth notary to sign the deeds to a luxury house in his El Palmar apartment.
Migration movements featured frequent trips to Central America and trips by relatives through Germany, Austria, Paris, and Venice.
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Actually, One of the photos, which serves to confirm that Dominik is in Colombia, was taken at the Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá (Cundinamarca).
According to Panama records, a company opened in December 2020 appears to be active: Liberal Construction and Developments.
/ Also: Clues on the murder of businessman Carlos Dangond) The firm is engaged in the construction of buildings, houses, squares, road works, schools, real estate projects, tourism projects and real estate development in general. It has now been confirmed whether that company signed a contract in Colombia.
The investigation revealed that he was circulating in Central America with three different documents.
According to the prosecutor’s office, One of the countries most visited by the Peluche nickname was Guatemala, where he obtained his identity documents.
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From here later supervised heroin shipments for transfers to the United States. Also, the prosecution adds that in Guatemala, the millionaire received illegal payments. By members of a transnational drug trafficking network.
But ‘Peluche’ was carrying a Colombian alien identity card at the time of his capture and also acted with Dominican documents.
In the file opened against Dominik, His initiation into drug trafficking had links to a gangster identified by the alias ‘el Chato’.
Added a few interventions to it indictment Y At the time, an informant who had committed a crime with the Cali cartel was asked to ‘translate’ the cryptic language the Dominican used to balance the drug shipment with a subject he named ‘Sandy’.
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Then, ‘Peluche’s defense argued that her client was talking about the purchase of stolen lighting equipment, not the heroin shipment, in the wiretaps. For nightclub in the Dominican Republic.
Again, The judge in the case concluded that, excluding these wiretaps, there was sufficient evidence to link him to heroin trafficking.
“ubiquitination Mr Lizon puts Pereira back on the international drug trafficking map” an investigator of the case told EL TIEMPO.
And recently remembered vendetta gangster The heirs of the Henao (del Valle) clan located in that city that became one of the epicenters of the great mafia in Colombia.
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Now The Dominican’s possible links with the criminal gang “La Cordillera” and Diego, nicknames “Mamba” and “Don A” are explored. Three demobilized members of the Central Bolívar bloc, the self-defense groups that manage drug trafficking in the region.
‘Peluche’ defense (as in the past) will be able to fetch all legal resources Trying to prove that you’re not a criminal gangster. But in the United States they expect him to be sent back to prison.
in 2020 Pereira ranks second in the country for heroin consumption, according to a study by the Coffee District Drug Observatory.. The Ministry of Justice has just updated the study, and Pereira, along with Medellín and Cali, continues to lead the way in deadly consumption.
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The analysis details In Pereira, 99.5 percent of injecting drug users used heroin, which is the most commonly used substance in the last year, over marijuana with 76 percent; bazuco with 71.3 percentand over-the-counter methadone with 54 percent.
Authorities conducted several operations against networks commercializing this drug. in Pereira.
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last October, the prosecutor’s office arrested 13 people for allegedly distributing drugs in the city by disbanding the ‘Persa’ organization, at the so-called ‘Bronx’ points and at Commune 8 of Dosquebradas.
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