In a transnational operation of the Anti-Narcotics Police and the Public Prosecution Service, in collaboration with the to give and Peruvian authorities, the arrest of six people requested for extradition, including one of the former partners of the former head of the Medellín Cartel, was reached. Pablo Escobar
The catches were in Bogotá and Lima and the Bolivian Jorge Roca Suárez fell into them, ‘Straw roofing‘, as Escobar’s partner was known. Roberto Moisés Banzer, Jheyson Montaño Fernández, Ómar Rojas Echeverría, César Ómar Cuéllar Pérez, all of Bolivian nationality, and Rómulo Ramírez Rodríguez, Peruvian, were arrested with him.
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According to the police, the six formed an international organization dedicated to transporting large shipments cocaine since Bolivia and Peru, using high-end aircraft taking off from clandestine runways in northern Bolivia to Central America with a final destination in EE. UU., and the use of official officers to facilitate entry and exit of said aircraft.
These people were brought to US authorities for offenses of illicit drug trafficking and firearms trafficking.
Straw roofing‘, known within the organization as the leader and believed to be responsible for shipping the drug, he was also considered one of the largest drug traffickers in Bolivia and was one of the main partners of the Medellin Cartel.
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At the time, Techo de Paja, 69, was considered the largest Bolivian drug trafficker. He is the narco’s cousin and successor Roberto Suarez, known in Bolivia as the ‘King of cocaine. ‘
His capture took place on March 9 in the Miraflores district, in Lima, Peru, and according to the newspaper Trade He did not resist, but tried to identify with a false document such as Jorge Rivero Saavedra.
As published by these media outlets, Roca is said to have reverted to crime during the pandemic COVID-19, in 2020, by coordinating the shipment of drugs that were shipped from Peru to Bolivia, then to Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico and finally to the United States.
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Thatch Roof paid a 28-year sentence in the USA since December 13, 1990 for drug trafficking, but in April 2018, after finishing his sentence in that country, he was sent to San Pedro de La Paz prison in Bolivia to serve a 15-year sentence for drug trafficking.
After spending a few months in that prison and then placed under house arrest, he applied for permission to receive medical attention at a health centerwhere did he escape on December 7, 2018.
Since then, he had not been heard again until, thanks to the scrutiny of the authorities of the United States, the National Police of Peru and Colombia, his recapture was achieved.
The others took prisoners
With regard to the other designated members of the criminal network, the Anti-Narcotics Police reported that Ómar Rojas is known to have worked for the Bolivian National Police to the degree of major, where he makes contacts to facilitate the access of planes to clandestine runways in the department of Beni, Bolivia, where they were loaded with narcotics, and coordinate drug shipments with Peruvian drug traffickers and Mexican cartels.
Roberto Banzer, for his part, was in charge of drug delivery with laboratories in Bolivia and Peru. These labs had the capacity to produce more than 10 tons weekly and were located in the north of Bolivia on the border with Brazil and Peru. Therefore, they were strategic points to facilitate the transportation and shipping of the alkaloid.
For their part, Jheyson Montaño, César Cuéllar and Rómulo Ramírez had logistical functions in the shipment of the shipments of cocaine.
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