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November 28, 2018 at 18:30
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Last updated on November 28, 2018 at 18:31
The Colombian authorities captured in the Norte de Santander department, border with Venezuela, aka "Carlos Acosta", leader of the Northeast War Front of the National Liberation Army (ELN). Alias "Carlos Acosta" was busy with drug trafficking in the Catatumbo area, police said Wednesday.
The operation was developed by the armed forces and the prosecutor's office in the Culebra farm, which belongs to the municipality of El Carmen, police added in a statement.
El Carmen, Teorama, El Tarra, San Calixto, Hacari, Convention, La Playa, Tibú and Sardinata are part of Catatumbo, a convulsive jungle region where ELN and other gangs of criminals vie for control drug trafficking routes.
According to the investigations, the detainee had a criminal trajectory of more than 10 years in the ELN and was responsible for administering and controlling funds from drug trafficking, kidnappings and extortion, through which military and police documents had been acquired.
In addition, he was an expert in the development of explosive devices with which the insurgency attacked the public force and the road, energy and petroleum infrastructure of Catatumbo, one of the regions where the Coca cultivation was the most important.
Alias "Carlos Acosta" has been put at the disposal of the justice before which he will have to answer by the crimes of rebellion and concert to commit an aggravated delinquency, the financing of the terrorism and the manufacture and the traffic of drug, details the police.
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