Thursday, March 03, 2022
He had gone through more than three criminal organizations as head of hitmen.
Within the framework of Police Operation Condor, the National Police of all Colombians, through the Directorate of Criminal Investigation and INTERPOL (DIJIN), in coordination with the Attorney General’s Office, captured in recent hours in the city of Santa Marta – Magdalena, to the individual known in the criminal sphere as ‘Mello Bolaños’, main leader of the North Caribbean Commission, of the organized armed group ‘Clan del Golfo’.
The ‘Mello Bolaños’, had a criminal record of 13 years, had started his criminal career since 2009 as head of hitmen of the criminal organization ‘Los Paisas’ and later of ‘Los Nevados’, with criminal interference in the department of Magdalene; In 2017, he offered his services as a hitman to the organized common crime group ‘La Silla’, dedicating himself to charging for the protection of drug shipments to large drug traffickers in the ports of Santa Marta, under the name of alias ‘La Silla’ or ‘ Elkin’, in order to preserve the security of shipments.
Due to his extensive criminal record alias ‘Mello Bolaños’, he was subcontracted at the beginning of 2021, by the top leader of the ‘Clan del Golfo’, to take command of more than 97 members of the North Caribbean Commission in the departments of Magdalena. and La Guajira, in order to continue with the monopoly of the cocaine hydrochloride shipping routes to Central America and Europe, was also in charge of ordering and coordinating selective homicides in this jurisdiction, being considered by the Colombian authorities as a high-level target. value.
The criminal organization had instructed this leader to seize drug trafficking routes, bringing together criminal groups in the region to jointly traffic and meet the international demand for the drug, for which they also used nearby collection centers. to the main port and other clandestine shipping sites on different beaches in the sector, where he controlled the output of cocaine hydrochloride, charging up to one million pesos for each kilogram.
Alias ’Mello Bolaños’, was left at the disposal of the competent authority for the crime of conspiracy to commit a crime.
