Alias Job is accused of being the main ringleader of the criminal subgroup “Héroes del Caribe”, which commits crimes in the department of Bolivar.
Alias Job, also known as Pata Larga, was captured in the municipality of San Onofre, Sucre, by troops of the Colombian Navy, the Colombian Air Force, units of the National Police and the Attorney General's Office.
Complying an arrest warrant issued by the First Municipal Criminal Court against organized crime in Cartagena, Bolivar, the man was capture on public road by troops of the Military Gaula (Anti-Extortion and Anti-Kidnapping Group) Sucre, attached to the Navy Infantry Battalion No.13, in coordination with units of the Special Operations Group of the National Police (SIJÍN) Sucre and Bolívar.
The 50-year captured was a member of the Organized Armed Group (GAO) Clan del Golfo for more than 22 years. He is accused by the judicial authorities for the crimes of conspiracy to commit crimes, aggravated homicide, trafficking, manufacturing or carrying narcotic substances, manufacturing or trafficking of firearms or ammunition, enforced disappearance and murder. Thus he became the main ringleader of this substructure. In addition, he had under his command 86 members of the GAO in rural and urban areas of the department of Bolívar.
He is also accused for having been a ringleader of the Organized Armed Group (GAO) Los Rastrojos, in which he allegedly perpetrated a massacre of 10 peasants in the municipality of Santa Rosa de Osos, Antioquia. In the same way, he was a ringleader of the criminal subgroup Bloque Minero of the extinct AUC (paramilitary group), in which he carried out criminal activities such as forced recruitment, forced displacement, massacres and the coordination to send narcotic substances from Magdalena River to Golfo de Morrosquillo.
Source: press-Navy of Colombia
