The family GAO Clan del Golfo set up a training center for jíbaros in the south of the capital.
The National Army, in coordination with the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation, achieved the dismantling of the criminal network designated to control the sale of drugs in educational settings and residential areas of the Rafael Uribe Uribe locality, in Bogotá. Nine people were captured, including the ringleaders, who allegedly recruited more than 30 drug dealers.
Thanks to the analysis and legaloperations launched by the authorities against local drug trafficking and the timely citizen denunciation that has warned about the increase in criminal phenomena in educational environments and residential areas it was possible to identify an illegal maneuver used by a criminal structure to extend its drug distribution lines in Bogotá.
In the municipality of Rafael Uribe Uribe, in the south of the city, the trafficking network, made up mostly of people of the same family, would have perpetrated to recruit young drug users, elderly people, street dwellers and the unemployed to teach them the different methods of camouflage of the substances, the zones of sale, the identification of potential clients and the exact amount of they had to carry to pass as consumers and not to be captured by the authorities.
A detailed follow-up evidenced that the so-called GAO Clan del Golfo de Los Suancha managed to group more than 30 vendors who, after overcoming a training and confidence stage, invaded parks, commercial and residential areas, and the surroundings of two public schools of the municipality. .
The commercialization of the drug was done in broad daylight, in places of high attendance and in front of children. In several videos obtained by undercover agents it was found that the heads of the distribution lines distributed the doses accompanied by of their children, some of two, five and nine years old, who behaved as if what happened in their environment was a game.
The investigators who followed the track to the GAO Clan del Golfo of the Suancha, found that the leaders of the organization compensated illicit services with narcotics, each jibaro was given five daily bazooka ballots and never made payments in money.
Thanks to the abundant material obtained, nine of the presumed members of the GAO Clan del Golfo de los Suancha were identified, as well as their roles and areas for the sale of drugs.
Investigators of theCTI (Technical Investigations Corps) of the Prosecutor's Office, with the support of the Thirteenth Brigade of the National Army, captured these people in diligences fulfilled in the neighborhoods Molinos, Marruecos, Bochica and San Agustín, in the south of Bogotá; and in Medellín (Antioquia). Among the detainees are the alleged ringleaders, a woman and a Venezuelan citizen, who were supposed to be in charge of the distribution lines and to supply the network of jíbaros.
Source: National Army
