Among those arrested are Alias Frank, the second ringleader of the group, and Alias Dilan, the fourth ringleader of this illegal armed group, apprehended in a National Army checkpoint.
National Army troops, within the framework of Operation Tormenta and through intelligence work, carried out the arrest of two ringleaders and two other alleged members of the residual Organized Armed Group, GAO-r, Adán Izquierdo at a checkpoint on the Pan-American highway in the municipality of El Cerrito, Valle del Cauca.
Among those arrested is Alias Frank, 31, who has a three-year criminal history in the organization. According to what could be established, this criminal would have participated in the installation of the car bomb that detonated in front of the mayor's office of Corinto, Cauca, in March 2021, where 18 people were injured; in the same way, he was in charge of instructing the new members of this GAO-r, collecting the illicit money and carrying out multiple attacks on the Military Forces.
On the other hand, alias Dilan, 35, has a criminal history of 11 years in the organization and would be in charge of armed proselytism, collection of money from extortion, as well as ordering the selective homicide of inhabitants of the region.
Along with these two ringleaders, two more men were in the same way arrested, alleged members of this residual GAO, who had with them more than seven million pesos in cash, mobile phones equipment and a van, which had been reported stolen.
It is important to highlight that these individuals were part of the structure responsible for the threats to communities in the upper part of Guacarí, Buga and Tuluá, preventing their free mobilization in the villages and villages.
The material and the arrested were put into custody of the authorities.
With this result, previous neutralizations and arrests, the logistical, command, control and financial structures of the residual organized armed group Adán Izquierdo company are being decisively hit, decimating their criminal operations in the department of Valle del Cauca.
Source: Press – National Army
