Colombian authorities reported on Tuesday the capture of a man with dual Colombian-Ecuadorian nationality accused of allegedly coordinating the shipment of cocaine to the United States.
The Colombian police classified Luis Guillermo Estupiñán Quiñones, alias “El Indio” and “Memo”, as an “invisible drug trafficker”, as they define those who remain anonymous, with facades that give them a low profile, far from the eccentricities and public attacks of the drug lords of the 1980s and 1990s.
Estupiñán Quiñones was captured in Putumayo, a department bordering Ecuador, in a coordinated operation between the authorities of Colombia, Great Britain and the United States, a country that requests him for crimes related to drug trafficking in a court in the Southern District of California, the report added. police.
The director of the police, General William Salamanca, assured from its operations.”
Estupiñán Quiñones would have coordinated the shipment of cocaine from Colombia and Ecuador to the United States, the police indicated without detailing the amount trafficked.
The detainee would have led a network that was responsible for hiding and transporting cocaine by land to clandestine areas of Buenaventura, the main port on the Colombian Pacific, as well as to the departments of Nariño and Cauca, in the southwest of the country.
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