The band “Los Traquetos” is responsible of a criminal weave in the high Sinu, that left at least 14 deaths and is being whipped by the police.
This weekend 13 of its members, six demobilized from the self-defenses and seven common delinquents, fall in power of the team of Dijin and Dipol that arrive to Bogota to coordinate the actions with the local authorities.
Los Traquetos are highlighted by the security organisms as a dangerous organization to look to manage the business of the coca after the disarm of the paramilitaries of Salvatore Mancuso.
Are highlight to be the authors of the assassinations of people close to the ex paramilitary chief that worked in the eradication of illicit crops. In the zone are identified as ex members of the block Heroes de Tolova, leader Don Berna.
The chief still running
The operatives were done in Tierra Alta and in the rural zone, said the police sources. But, was not possible to capture the chief of this group, a paramilitary known as El cobra
The captured ones had in their power five motorcycles, one Pietro Beretta pistol, one revolver 38 long, 5 equipments of radio and six cellulars.
The homicide escalade of these delinquents, was denounced by Salvatore Mancuso on a letter send to the president Alvaro Uribe that motivate last week an extraordinary security council.
“The results began to be observed after the increment of the uniform personnel and of intelligence in the region, but over all by the value collaboration of the community”, said the Cordoba police commandant Colonel Jaime Orlando Velasco.
The captured ones must answer, aside for concert to transgress with narco-traffic ends and illegal carriage of arms.
Los Traquetos is one of the new criminal groups emerged in the areas of the paramilitary demobilization.
A student his last victim
The band is accused to assassinate eight people, in the last 15 days. The victims were close to the ex paramilitary chief Salvatore Mancuso, and support the eradication of illicit crops.
One of the cases that implicate Los Traquetos captured occurred in the path Carrizola in Tierra Alta (Cordoba), in where were assassinated 5 people on a Billar.
The last victims were the student Andres Assias, son of the cattle owner Aran Assias, who gave lands for agricultural projects to the reinserted ones of Mancuso and Hernan Dario Giraldo Zuluaga, relative of him.
By El Tiempo