They capture a drug dealer in Colombia for celebrating a luxurious party during confinement

The drug trafficker Gustavo Adolfo Álvarez Téllez, alias “Tavo” or “Gordo”, One of the leaders in the Caribbean region of the Gulf Clan, he was arrested after celebrating a party with great luxuries and mariachis despite the confinement imposed to stop the spread of the coronavirus.

On Friday night, after receiving information about it, Álvarez was located in a rural area of ​​Cereté, Córdoba, to where a group of “Jungle” commandos from the Anti-Narcotics Police arrived. The operation was coordinated between the Police, the Attorney General’s Office, and the United States Anti-Drug Agency (DEA), agencies that had been following in the footsteps of “Tavo” a few months ago.

Police sources confirmed to the Colombian newspaper “Time”Than a week ago “Tavo” held a party at his farm to which several relatives, guests, mariachis and music groups.

“The guests arrived in high-end cars, the musical groups they were transferred from Montería. In addition to excess liquor and other activities. That was one of the clues to think that “Tavo” was in the place“Police sources have explained.

On the farm, the agents found luxuries of all kinds, such as a swimming pool, jacuzzi, step horses and livestock.

“Tavo” was one of the most wanted drug traffickers in Colombia and for information that led to his capture the government offered a reward of 580 million pesos (about $ 140,000).

“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 Magdalena Medio paramilitary self-defense groups under the command of Ramón Isaza. Over the years, he settled in Cartagena, where he was a hitman in the service of Diego Vecino and “Juancho Dique”, leaders of the “Montes de María Block” of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC).

In 2005 he moved to Medellín 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 his sentence and returned to Colombia in 2014 to join the Gulf Clan.

(With information from Europa Press)