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Collage del operativo de captura en Cúcuta: el detenido con chaqueta roja entre agentes de la Policía Nacional, un operativo en la calle y la toma de huellas dactilares.
Operativo de captura de alias El Señor en Cúcuta, Norte de Santander. · Policía Nacional / Infobae

Alias El Señor captured in Cúcuta, a cocaine route broker wanted for extradition by the US

The National Police captured Daneiro Correa Vega, alias El Señor, in Cúcuta.

--- The context --- Shortly after midday on Saturday, October 17, the National Police released details of the capture operation in Cúcuta, Norte de Santander, against Daneiro Correa Vega, alias El Señor, also known as Ferman, whom the authorities describe as a broker of transnational drug trafficking routes from the Catatumbo region. --- The facts --- The detainee is wanted for extradition by a United States court on charges related to drug trafficking and conspiracy. According to the official statement, Correa Vega headed an independent organization that served as a link between cocaine production areas, illegal armed organizations, transport networks and international departure platforms. According to the Dijín investigation, the structure had the logistical and financial capacity to coordinate shipments of up to three tons of cocaine hydrochloride per month toward the Caribbean and then to the United States, through the contamination of cargo containers in Colombian ports and maritime transfers in fast boats known as Go Fast vessels. The Police maintain that the network controlled its own laboratories in rural areas of Sardinata and Bucarasica, in Norte de Santander, where it coordinated the collection of coca derivatives from Catatumbo and their transformation into cocaine hydrochloride. --- The positions --- The official statement reports alleged functional agreements with the Juan Fernando Porras front of the National Liberation Army (ELN) and logistical links with the Autodefensas Conquistadoras de la Sierra Nevada and other criminal actors on the Caribbean Coast. The operation was carried out by the Dijín, in coordination with the Attorney General's Office and with support from the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). --- What remains unknown --- The source does not specify which United States court is seeking the detainee or the timeline of the extradition process, and it includes no position from the defense of the captured man, whose responsibility will have to be established in court. --- Unanswered questions --- Which United States court is seeking Correa Vega and on what exact charges? How long could the judicial and diplomatic process for his handover take? Will there be more captures among the alleged partners of the network on the Caribbean Coast? --- EPM analysis --- The capture is presented as a blow against an intermediary: neither a producer nor a buyer, but the link that, according to the Police, connected every phase of the business from Catatumbo to the international departure platforms. 📌 EPM Take: In EPM's view, the case of alias El Señor will be decided in two files that are only just beginning: the Colombian judicial file, which must support with evidence the three-ton monthly capacity that the Police attribute to his network, and the extradition file before the United States, which will test cooperation between the two countries. Until those two processes advance with verifiable decisions, the capture is an important operational result, but not yet the proven dismantling of the route attributed to him.
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