Captured aka ‘El Indio’, partner of Mexican cartels, with four people

Aliases’The Indian‘, who largely controlled drug trafficking on the Colombia-Ecuadorian border and maintained alliances with residual armed groups, was captured along with four people believed to be associated with Mexican cartels and who were hiding in protected areas. This was confirmed by Colonel Mauricio Rico, deputy director of the Anti-narcotics police.

According to what was expressed by the officer, the capture of the five people took place with the participation of the DEA and Colombian judicial authorities. They were all part of the organization’blue roses‘ and they were detained in the department of Nariño.

“The Anti-Narcotics Directorate, in coordination with the Attorney General’s Office and the DEA anti-drug agency, has managed to capture five people requested for extradition to the department of Nariño for the crimes of illicit drug trafficking and conspiracy to commit a crime,” Colonel Rich said.

The four captured members of this organization are known as “Adriana”, alias “Guillermo”, alias “Bayardo” and alias “Tía”. His role in the organization was to collaborate with “El Indio” driving vehicles to send the drugs along trails in rural areas and to verify that they reached their final destination. The inmates will be charged with the crimes of illicit drug trafficking and conspiracy to commit a felony.

“Jose Mauricio Imbacuan, aka ‘El Indio’, one of the five captured and whom the DEA followed in his footsteps for more than four years, was responsible for leading this criminal organization called GDO ‘Blue Rouses’established links and coordinated the departure of cocaine from Colombia to the United States,” Colonel Rico explained.

The authorities attribute to this organization the sending of more than two tons of drugs to this country. Likewise, 17 assets were found to be in his possession, including seven vehicles, eight buildings and two houses, all valued at over 2,650 million pesos.

“He had extensive control of the drug trafficking subsystem in the border area, registering alliances with residual armed groups, his criminal activity was concentrated in protected areas, in order to escape the controls carried out by the Force Publique in this sector, in addition, he contacted with posters on Mexico there Ecuador for the receipt of cocaine shipments which would then be transported to the United States,” added the colonel.

Furthermore, he explained that the route principal of blue alarm clocks was to remove the drug from clandestine laboratories located in rural areas of tablecapital of the municipality of patheticin the department of Cauca; then, it passed through Pasto and Ipiales, to finally reach the border with Ecuador. “They used vehicles with irregular cavities (coves), high-end vehicles, food transport vehicles and public transport, in order to persuade the road authorities,” he said.

Finally, he provided more details on how the drugs came to the United States. “He was sent by speedboats of the type ‘Hurry up‘, with a fishing frontage towards Central America and the United States”

Two weeks ago, on February 15, he was also captured Nestor Mosquera Arboledaaka “El Gordo”, identified by authorities as one of the sponsors of illegal mining in the area medium atratoin Chocolate. In this sense, he was one of the most wanted men in this region of the Colombian Pacific.

With the capture of Gord, the control agency’s domain confiscation service seized more than 50 assets that were used by the criminal structure he led “or were in the service of the criminal activities he carried out in the deterioration of natural resources”. In fact, according to the investigations carried out against him, he would have given eight million pesos to a colonel of the national police, who also served as commander in Chocó and who was captured a few days ago.