translated from Spanish: They manage to arrest ‘narco’ wanted in Colombia after organizing lavish party during quarantine

This Saturday, the drug trafficker Gustavo Adolfo Alvarez Téllez, alias ‘Tavo’ or ‘Gordo’, a leader in the Caribbean region of the Gulf Clan, was arrested after holding a party with great luxuries and mariachis despite the confinement imposed to tackle the contagion of coronavirus. On Friday night after receiving an information about it Alvarez was located in a rural area of Cereté, Córdoba, where a group of commandos ‘Jungla’ of the Police Antinarcóticos.La operation was coordinated between the Police, the Attorney General’s Office and the United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), agencies that were following the steps to ‘Tavo’ a few months ago. Sources of the Police have confirmed to the Colombian newspaper ‘El Tiempo’ that a week ago ‘Tavo’ held a party on his farm to which several relatives, guests, mariachis and musical groups.” The guests arrived in high-end cars, the musical groups were moved from Montería. Added to excess liquor and other activities. That was one of the clues to think that ‘Tavo’ was in place,” said police sources.’Tavo’ was one of Colombia’s most wanted drug traffickers and for information that would lead to his capture the Government offered a reward of 580 million pesos (about 132,000 euros). ‘Tavo’ is accused of taking at least six tons of cocaine a month through the ports of Santa Marta and Cartagena.He began his criminal activity in 1990 as part of the paramilitary self-defenses of the Middle Magdalena under Ramón Isaza. Over the years he settled in Cartagena, where he was a hitman in the service of Diego Vecino and ‘Juancho Dique’, heads of the ‘Block Montes de María’ of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC). In 2005 he moved to Medellin and participated in the ‘Office’ under the command of Maximiliano Bonilla, alias ‘Valenciano’. In May 2012 he was captured by the Anti-Narcotics Police and extradited to the United States, where he served two years of sentence and returned to Colombia in 2014 to join the Gulf Clan.

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