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He portrayed himself as a humble displaced foreign citizen. With that facade, the dreaded criminal Manuel Antonio Díaz Rueda, better known by the alias of Milton, He was off the radar of the authorities for a while, until his capture was achieved this Saturday.
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After 2 months of investigation, anti-narcotics intelligence agents arrived at the house where ‘Milton’ was hiding, after one of his henchmen decided to hand over to the authorities all the information on this leader in revenge because the man had ordered the murder of his brother for not having agreed to belong to this armed group.
‘Milton’ was the military leader of the ‘Pelusos’, and he was hiding in an invasion outside Cúcuta, from where controlled extortion charges from ranchers and charcoal makers, through a small sicarial arm made up of a group of ‘drop by drop’ agendas.
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These were some of the items that were seized from alias Milton and his security ring.
Alias Milton had a security scheme of eight men and six women, who posed as moneylenders ‘drop by drop’ to cover up the collection of extortion and selective homicides that terrorized the entire metropolitan area of Cúcuta and extended to the municipalities of Zulia and Sardinata, in Norte de Santander.
With 17 years in this organization, ‘Milton’ came to Catatumbo from La Guajira, integrating the defunct Libardo Mora Toro Front of the Popular Liberation Army (EPL).
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Until a few years ago, it was the most powerful drug trafficking organization in Catatumbo, in charge of the monopoly of approximately 90% of cocaine production.
This recent coup by the Anti-Narcotics Police would have caused the final blow to the weakened structure of ‘Los Pelusos’, as it is reduced to just under 50 men in arms and the loss of all its areas of influence in Norte de Santander.
In fact, from Quibdó, President Iván Duque highlighted the capture of ‘Milton’, and said that, in addition to being the third leader of the criminal gang ‘Los Pelusos’, the man is accused of planning assassinations of social leaders and intimidating to the population of Catatumbo.
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