Colombia’s most wanted drug trafficker – the leader of the country’s largest criminal gang – has been captured.
Dairo Antonio Úsuga, better known as Otoniel, was seized after a joint operation by the army, air force and police, with some officers even posing for photos with the cartel boss.
The government had offered a $800,000 (£582,000) reward for information about his whereabouts, while the US placed a $5m bounty on his head.
There have been several huge operations involving thousands of officers to capture the 50-year-old in recent years, but until now none had been successful.
Colombia’s security forces labelled the gang as the country’s most powerful criminal organisation, while authorities in the US describe it as “heavily armed [and] extremely violent”.
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