The organized gang La Terraza would be intimidating people to transport cocaine in capsules inside their bodies to abroad.
Within the framework of the I don't pay, I denounce campaign of the Military Gaula (Anti-Extortion and Anti-Kidnapping Group), and as part of the strategy to protect the inhabitants and weaken the threats, following the Ayacucho Operations Plan that seeks to stabilize the territories through inter-institutional work with the Attorney General's Office, Colombian National Army continues to damage the activities of the La Terraza gang.
This case of extortion kidnapping occurred in the municipality of Itagüí, Antioquia. Soldiers of the Military Gaula (Anti-Extortion and Anti-Kidnapping Group) Antioquia and officials of the judicial component of the Technical Investigation Corps (CTI) of Medellín arrested an alleged member of La Terraza in flagrante delicto.
This operation was possible thanks to the denunciation by a relative of the victim, who reported that the group demanded 50 million pesos to free the young man and besides provided encapsulated narcotics in exchange for not attacking his life.
Given this information, an anti-kidnapping operation was initiated in which Gaula (Anti-Extortion and Anti-Kidnapping Group) Antioquia commandos and CTI (Technical Investigations Corps) officials agreed on a meeting point with the perpetrator in the Santa María neighborhood, of the aforementioned municipality. Once at the place, the kidnapper received what was demanded by the illegal group, and at that moment the authorities quickly arrested him.
The arrested man was put into custody of the authority to face the alleged crimes of extortion kidnapping and trafficking, manufacture or transportation of narcotics, having been found 42 capsules with cocaine.
According to intelligence information, the La Terraza gang would have under its control a group of women with several cocaine capsules in their stomachs, who were going to be used as mules bound for Spain.
The kidnapped person was rescued and is currently back with his family at home.
Source: National Army
