They capture alias “La Burra”, leader of Los Triana, after being identified for appearing in a documentary

In the last few hours, the police managed to capture Elber González Vider alias La Burra, leader of Los Triana, one of the most experienced illegal groups in Medellín and Bello, during four raids in the neighborhood of La Gabriela de Bello, after being able to identify him thanks to images from a documentary filmed three years ago years.

General Fernando Murillo, director of Criminal Investigation (DIJIN), said that alias La Burra at the time of his capture tried to identify himself with a false school coordinator card to evade controls.

“Four cell phones with important information about the organization are seized, six USBs and this criminal is captured,” General Murillo announced and recalled that alias La Burra was wanted for murder, extortion and forced displacement.

La Burra could be identified after appearing in a documentary, recorded in 2019, in which part of the face and other features that, during the investigations of the authorities, were vital to individualize the captured person.

“This criminal is completely uniformed, wearing a balaclava, referring to the criminal capacity of the Los Triana gang,” said the director of the DIJIN.

According to General Murillo, in these videos you can not only see how they worked in the illegal organization, but also, this material was used to compare the characteristics of alias La Burra with the information of witnesses and archival photographic material, and thus, thanks to a morphological crime study, it was possible to identify completely his face and confirm his identity.

La Burra was brought before a guarantee control judge before whom the Attorney General's Office charged him with the crimes of concert for aggravated crimes for extortion, homicide, drug trafficking, weapons and forced displacement.

The prisoner has a long record that has been consolidated for more than 28 years of criminal life that began in the Cacique Nutibara Block of the demobilized United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, a structure in which he belonged until 1999.

In 2000, he joined the ranks of the Triana, who commit crimes in the Popular and Santa Cruz communes of Medellín and the 10th and 11th communes in Bello, being “appointed as leader of the sicarial component, due to his criminal experience in armament and fighting in the self-defence groups” as General Murillo explained.

In 2005, as General Murillo added, he was appointed criminal coordinator of the Pablo VI neighborhood, being responsible for ordering and coordinating targeted homicides, forced displacement, drug trafficking, among other crimes.

By 2018, he began to lead the armed component of the organization and, finally, in 2020, to be the second leader of this group after the capture of alias Andrés, reaching 60 men under his command.

On March 20, Yoimer Alexander Vargas Henao, alias Mauricio, leader of the Gulf Clan, was captured by members of the Anti-Narcotics Police who were following in his footsteps in dozens of cases of extortion, murder and drug trade.

In the early morning of Sunday, the Jungla Command arrived at the house of alias Mauricio, located in the Quebrada village, attached to San José del Urabá, in Antioquia's Urabá.

“At about 6 a.m. with sunrise, they broke into the wooden building and, with an arrest warrant, Mauricio was arrested. More than 20 uniformed men surrounded the building and others guarded the captured person to a safe place for extraction and subsequent surrender to the judicial authorities,” reported Colonel Julio Ernesto Triana, head of the Interdiction Department of the Police Anti-Narcotics Department.

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