Jail for 'El Tuso', he had 25 kilos of marijuana in his vehicle

In the last few hours, the Attorney General's Office presented Wilson Muñoz Quezada, alias El Tuso, a man who was captured with 25 kilos of marijuana in recent days when he was mobilizing through roads in the department of Cauca. At the hearing, the accusator charged him with crimes of manufacturing, trafficking, and carrying narcotics.

For its part, the togado issued an intra-wall insurance measure to the man, after hearing the charge made by the Prosecutor's Office. Despite the evidence, alias 'El Tuso' did not enter the charges charged by the prosecutor, but was sent to jail by the judge.

According to the Prosecutor's Office, “Muñoz Quezada was captured by servers of the Cali Drug Trafficking Investigation Group of the Technical Investigation Corps, with the support of soldiers of the Army Military Police Battalion No. 13, and agents of the Metropolitan Police when he was mobilizing in a Chevrolet vehicle with GRB 882 license plates.”

Alias 'El Tuso' was driving in that car along the road that connects the municipalities of Puerto Tejada and Cali, in Valle del Cauca, when he crossed paths with the uniformed, who asked him to stop the vehicle. When checking the trunk, the servers of the CTI found a double deck that, when removed, was found a compartment containing 26 packages of marijuana, with a net weight of 25 kilos of the drug and valued at $11,000,000.

The authorities' investigation determined that Muñoz had picked up the cargo in the district of El Palo, a rural area of the municipality of Caloto and that the destination was Cali, where he was going to distribute it among drug gangs. They pointed out that marijuana would be distributed in networks operating in neighborhoods in the capital such as Alameda, Brittany, Guayaquil, Aranjuez, Manuel María Buenaventura, Santa Monica, Belalcázar, Sucre and Obrero de la Comuna 9 in Cali.

Recently, in a similar operation, the Anti-Narcotics Police seized half a ton of marijuana that was to be marketed in Bogotá. Police investigators who were searching for this shipment indicated that, for four days, they were strengthening security at checkpoints on the access roads to the city, but did not detect the passage of it. “The results were unsuccessful, apparently, the driver of the truck traveled at night and at dawn to avoid police checkpoints,” they told Semana Magazine.

Finally, the operation resulted in the municipality of Soacha, south of Bogotá, where 587 kilos of marijuana were seized, which was intended to be distributed in the city to be marketed in the towns of Santa Fe, Suba and Fontibon. In addition, they have been able to establish that narcotics belonged to the FARC dissidents, specifically to the Dagoberto Ramos structure.

Although the car was normally mobilized at night and at dawn, benefiting from the darkness, the operation that resulted in its location and seizure took place in the morning of Monday, April 4. According to the Antonarcotic Police, they carried out sporadic checks on the roads of the municipality of Cundinamarca and there they saw a vehicle that matched the information they had on marijuana transport, a white truck with a black tent, so they asked the pilot to slow down and allow the review.

In recent weeks, the Anti-Narcotics Police have strengthened operations against drug trafficking, as is the case with Operation Esmeralda, which achieved this result in Cundinamarca. However, most seizures have occurred on roads in the department of Meta and Cauca.

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