Reward increases for alias 'El Loco', leader of horror band in Quibdó

So far this year there have been 65 homicides in Quibdó, capital of the department of Chocó, and at least 59 of them were the result of sicarito due to the bloody dispute faced by criminal gangs, which has reached the neighborhoods of the city.

The situation led to Mayor Marín Emilio Sánchez Valencia moving to Bogotá a week ago to ask for help from the authorities and ensure security. The request came after two shootings in residential neighborhoods that left four dead, including one minor, and several injured, including police uniforms.

“It's an alarming figure, it's a figure that worries us. We have some criminals who want to spread fear in a healthy community like Quibdó and Chocó, all that remains is to defeat it with all the determination,” said Interior Minister Daniel Palacios, during a visit to the city on Wednesday.

According to the head of the political portfolio, behind the criminal gangs that have faced blood and fire in the urban area of Quibdo, are the Gulf Clan and Los Mexicanos, who are fighting for territorial control.

One of Palacios' denunciations from Quibdó was the instrumentalization of minors that both groups had undertaken, with the aim of distributing pamphlets in the city to cause fear and even collaborate in extortive work. Palacios rejected that crime and assured that they will go to the last consequences.

To strengthen security in the region, the minister announced the arrival of three Navy river combat units to control the Atrato River, where the gangs would have incurred to confront each other. As well as an Air Force drone unit to have control from the sky.

“We will be fighting these criminals from the sky, rivers and land,” said Palacios, who also delivered 15 motorcycles, a SIART unit and two drones, in an investment investment of $1,363.85 billion.

“Today these criminals know that they are not going to know when we are looking at them, they are not going to know when that drone is up there analyzing, identifying and reaching them with operations to capture them, to reach their burrows and capture them wherever they are,” said the minister.

In the same vein, Palacios ruled that the persecution against Leovigildo Mosquera Palacios, one of the most wanted criminal leaders of Quibdó, who belongs to the Los Palmeros gang, involved in the shootings of recent weeks, will be strengthened.

“In the same way, we must announce that the reward for alias 'El Loco' will increase, which will go from 30 million to 50 million and today it is one of the most sought after here in the municipality of Quibdó. We reiterate that all those who have been on the most wanted cartel have been captured and that we will continue after each of those leaders who replace the one who is captured,” said the head of the political portfolio.

This criminal would have been tracked for several years because of his involvement in homicides and extortions in Chocó, who will now be pursued by the more than 190 additional police officers and 3 platoons who have set up to regain the security of the department.

According to Minister Palacios, without the incidence of these armed groups, there would be only 6 homicides in the city of Quibdo. In the plan to help the population, he also reiterated the social grant programs, scholarships for higher education in private universities, a shaken center, among other investments.

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