This structure is said to be using drones as a new form of Criminal Intelligence to evade military personnel operating in the area.
In the last month and a half, the Colombian Navy has found two illegal hideouts with abundant weapons of the Organized armed group, GAO, Clan del Golfo and destroyed a camping area for 50 people.
Units of the Navy of Colombia in a coordinated operation with the National Police and inter agency with the office of the Prosecutor General of the Nation, made effective the arrest warrant against alias Pollo, alleged ringleader of the component of the Organised Armed Group Substructure Pacifico, of the GAO, Clan del Golfo, and in the same way three other individuals apparently belonging to the same structure, were arrested in flagrante delicto in the sector known as village Patajoná, approximately 22 kilometers of the urban center of the municipality of Juradó, in Chocó.
The operation was carried out thanks to the intelligence work carried out by the Colombian Navy in the area and led to the surprise and arrest of these individuals, in a house in the sector without hit their lives or good physical condition. During the operation, war material was found, including four 9 mm pistols, ammunition and magazines for pistols and rifles, military accessories, two drones, communications equipment, four cell phones and narcotic substances.
According to intelligence, this organized armed group would be using drones, with an approximate range of five kilometers, as a new modality to carry out criminal intelligence on its area of interference and evade the operations of the Military Forces, which constantly carry out operations on that sector.
Alias Pollo would be in charge of the security of the river, maritime mobility routes and roads used to transport food, weapons and narcotics, for which this organized armed group would have territorial disputes with other criminal structures to maintain control of illicit activities; they would be the presumed responsible for the forced displacement of black and Indigenous communities that live in the coastal municipalities of the Department of Chocó; these individuals at the same time would be immersed in different criminal activities such as selective assassinations, extortion and armed constraint.
The arrested individuals and the materials were put into custody of the authorities.
Source: press-Colombian Navy
