In Santa Marta they captured five members of 'Los Pachenca'

In an operation, troops of the National Army who are in the Caribbean region of Colombia, captured five suspected members of the group outside the law 'Los Pachenca'.

It was carried out thanks to the work carried out by the Army in the department of Magdalena. The uniformed men were able to apprehend the subjects allegedly linked to the Organized Criminal Group (GDO), one of the most organized structures in the area.

The military operation, coordinated by the National Police, allowed the Gaula Magdalena troops to support the search and search efforts, which resulted in and succeeded in the capture of the members who allegedly caused unrest in the population.

Those arrested were placed at the disposal of the competent authorities for prosecution, where they must answer for the crimes of concert in the crime, manufacture, trafficking or carrying of narcotics and possession of firearms.

Similarly, it was established that these subjects would be in charge of local trafficking in psychoactive substances in the Tourist, Cultural and Historical District of the city of Santa Marta.

'The Pachenca' were named as Conquistadores de la Sierra Nevada Self-Defense Forces (ACSN), since they were born to the heirs of the Tayrona Resistance bloc of the Self-Defenses, commanded at that time by 'Hernán Giraldo', who has been held in the United States, since 2008.

The Attorney General's Office reported this weekend that they dismantled a gang involving one active policeman and two others who had belonged to that institution, and that cocaine was being shipped to the Balkan Peninsula in Europe, from the maritime terminal of Santa Marta (Magdalena).

“One of the said members of the illegal structure is a patrol boat and two others are former members of the National Police, who would have allowed drug shipments to pass into the cargo area to be camouflaged between containers with textile export-type fruits,” the investigating agency said.

According to the investigation carried out in the Prosecutor's Office, they were sending cocaine hydrochloride to Romania, Lithuania and other countries of the Balkan Peninsula, where they had ties with local drug traffickers who commit crimes in that area of the old continent.

“The other people who would be linked to the criminal scaffolding apparently made contacts for the acquisition of and transportation of cocaine in Colombia, and maintained alliances with the so-called mafias of the Balkans,” the prosecutor explained.

The arrests were carried out in a joint effort between the Attorney General's Office and the National Police, in collaboration with the DEA in Envigado (Antioquia), Neiva and Pitalito (Huila), Santa Marta (Magdalena) and Popayán (Cauca).

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