Brian Donaciano Verdugo “Pitt", an Emissary of "El Mayo" Zambada Captured in Cali, Colombia

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The anti-narcotics police, supported by DEA personnel, arrived at a luxurious house located in the Ciudad Jardín neighborhood in southern Cali, Colombia. There the drug trafficker was captured who, according to the first reports, is a well-known capo of the Sinaloa cartel. The person captured would be an emissary in Colombia of "El Mayo," who, according to the Mexican authorities, is the successor of "El Chapo."

Brian Donaciano Olguín Verdugo, alias Pitt, offered a 1 billion Colombian peso bribe to police officers to avoid his capture.

The authorities revealed the name of the captured man as Brian Donaciano Olguín Verdugo alias ​​"Pitt," an alleged link to the purchase of cocaine for the south of Valle del Cauca, Cauca, and Nariño. He has Interpol red notice in more than 190 countries. The police and the DEA came to him thanks to the follow-up they did on a Cali model with whom the drug trafficker apparently had a relationship. 

He entered through Medellín in February, eventually traveling to Cali, where he was finally captured. The report said that he was a “person of thick build with tattoos on his body, a bushy beard and an average height that exceeds 1.78m, demure and discreet who only used the applications to communicate with his links through the use of encrypted keys.”

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This man traveled by land until he reached the departments of Cauca, Valle and Nariño, with the intention of "strengthening criminal alliances" with the groups that operate in that area, especially with groups linked to the FARC dissidents such as 'Iván Mordisco' and 'Gentil Duarte'.

“This man constantly met in exclusive sectors and for short hours with people in what appears to be a criminal convention to acquire and transport drugs, likewise this subject would be an emissary of the Sinaloa cartel due to his ability to negotiate and mediate to establish criminal alliances with the dissidents in Colombia”, assures the Antinarcotics Police in a statement.

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“Once the exact location is obtained in a luxury condominium in the most exclusive sector of the city of Cali, the anti-drug counterparts in the United States are informed to carry out their arrest, the procedure was carried out in the early hours of the morning, Once the apartment complex is surrounded, almost without arousing suspicion, the uniformed officers enter to secure all the exits from the buildings,” General Ricardo Augusto Alarcón Campos, director of Anti-Narcotics of the National Police explained.

Sources: Blu Radio, El Heraldo