This individual had an arrest warrant for the crimes of extortion, manufacturing, trafficking and carrying firearms, ammunition and also association to commit crimes.
Within the framework of coordinated operations, soldiers of the Military Gaula (Anti-Extortion and Anti-Kidnapping Group) Department of Norte de Santander and the National Police arrested the individual known as Pineda, alleged main ringleader of the organized gang Pelusos, in Ocaña, Department of Norte de Santander, at the time he was receiving money as a result of extortion.
According to the intelligence information, alias Pineda has a criminal experience of 15 years in the criminal organization; he is allegedly responsible for criminal activities such as the collection of money from extortion against from merchants, farm owners, formal transport companies, as well as threats to the inhabitants, execution of kidnappings and homicides in urban and rural areas of the municipalities of Convención, Ocaña, La Playa and Ábrego.
Apparently, alias Pineda participated in the terrorist attack against a helicopter carrying money in the municipality of Teorama, in August 2014, he is in the same way responsible for attacks against the National Police and the incineration of vehicles of companies that transport gas in the municipality of Convención, Department of Norte de Santander, and in González, department of Cesár.
Colombian National Army continues to carry military operations that led to strike the criminal operations of the outlaw armed groups that converge in the Catatumbo region. In the same way, it invites the inhabitants to report any suspicious act on the toll-free line 147.
Source: National Army
