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A surprise operation of the Metropolitan Police of Cúcuta, on the morning of this Monday, in La Parada (Villa del Rosario), To repel the criminal actions of a group of armed men who frequent this place, he generated an exchange of shots with the suspects that left one of them dead.
The uniformed men clashed with at least eight alleged members of the criminal gang ‘Tren de Aragua’Therefore, in the midst of the crossfire, one of the aggressors died.
“It was like five minutes of intense shooting, it was strong”, assured one of the policemen who activated his supply weapon.
The incident occurred in the middle of a rice field, where the suspects have armed different makeshift huts.
As it was known, the community of the sector alerted the Villa del Rosario Police of the presence of the armed men in this place, for which an officer led the operation and formed a group of at least fourteen uniformed men who surrounded the site to verify What was happening.
“The group was divided and a fence was made around the rice cooker to verify what was happening. When they (gunmen) saw us, they started shooting, so the exchange of shots began, ”recalled a judicial source close to the case.
As the shooting raged, the alleged criminals ran to the rear and jumped a mesh to flee the scene, leaving communication radios in the middle of the field.
The man who was killed insisted on attacking the policemen, despite being surrounded by uniformed men and continued firing his revolver, for which, in the reaction of the uniformed men, he received three bullet wounds in the neck, abdomen and face. that left him lifeless at the scene.
“The shooting was very strong, I ran to hide scared, because I felt the shots very close,” said one of the merchants from La Parada.
The inspection at the scene of the event and the removal of the body was in charge of the Technical Investigation Body (CTI) of the Prosecutor’s Office, to guarantee judicial transparency in the investigations.
As it became known, in addition to the revolver, the alleged member of the ‘Tren de Aragua’ who died had five cartridges in one of the pockets of his shorts.
One of the characteristics of this person is that he had several tattoos of letters, names and clowns in different parts of the body.
Colonel José Luis Palomino López, commander of the Metropolitan Police of Cúcuta, arrived at the scene and led the investigations.
Extortion and micro-trafficking
The authorities assured that this place is frequented by the ‘Tren de Aragua’ to dominate the collection of extortions from merchants in this border area, as well as the sale of drugs, crimes that leave juicy profits for these criminal gangs.
However, the Metropolitan Police of Cúcuta reinforced controls to guarantee the safety of the inhabitants of Villa del Rosario, who have constantly been in the middle of the criminal chains of the illegal armed groups that dispute this territory, as well as the area of border.
It should be remembered that the authorities have captured members of the criminal gangs La Frontera and Tren de Aragua in the historic municipality, in the midst of the raids carried out by judicial investigators to counteract the actions of these organizations.
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