Authorities were already tracking Brian Donaciano Olguín Verdugo, the Pitt, who wanted to conduct himself with a low profile and consolidate his operations in Colombia for the Sinaloa Cartel, but his relationship with a model from Cali ended up bringing him to justice.
The Mexican is required by the Southern District Court of California, where he is accused of conspiracy to traffic cocaine. According to investigations, he would be responsible for a shipment of the narcotic seized in 2014 and whose weight was estimated at 303 kilograms.
Since then he was placed on the radar of the Drug Control Administration (DEA) and charged in the court of the demarcation that adjoins the border entity of Baja California. Eight years after the assurance, his planned meeting with a Colombian woman was the key to his arrest, according to media in the South American country.
Preliminary versions indicated that Olguín Verdugo was appointed by Ismael Zambada García, el Mayo, to establish interests in the shipment of cocaine. However, Jorge Luis Vargas Valencia, director general of the Colombian National Police, said that the ibPittb was the most important liaison for family members of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, el Chapo.
Currently, the Sinaloa Cartel is commanded by two main factions: those who have responded to Mayo Zambada for decades; and the heirs of the criminal empire known as Los Chapitos and/or the Minors, sons of Chapo Guzman: Ivan Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar , Jesus Alfredo Guzman Salazar, Ovidio Guzman Lopez and Joaquín Guzman Lopez.
On Brian Donaciano Olguín Verdugo, no major reports had transpired in Mexico. According to inquiries from Infobae Mexico, this subject was facing a trial in the Sixth Civil Court of Tijuana against Jesús Guerra Márquez and Diana Jackeline Guerra Carrillo. Its Agreement 2156/18 was published in February last year.
Initial reports pointed out that the Pitt had a date with a model he had recently met. It is not clear if it was the same couple with whom he entered the José María Córdova International Airport, near Medellin, on February 17. But the woman was crucial in the case.
Agents from the DEA and Colombia followed up on the female. They approached her little by little, even security personnel mobilized to collaborate in the encirclement. Another factor that influenced the operation was the monitoring of Mexicans who were regulars at exclusive restaurants and bars in the so-called capital of the Valley.
In the city, he met with traffickers in these VIP areas for a few hours to negotiate the purchase and transport of narcotics abroad. Its last entry to the region is located in 2018.
Vargas Valencia explained that the interests of the Mexican emissary were to arrange drug trafficking deals in the south of Valle del Cauca and Nariño, for shipments to Central America. In particular, he was delegated as a link with the dissidents of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FRAC) called Dagoberto Ramos, Carlos Patiño and Jaime Martínez, led by Iván Mordisco and Gentil Duarte.
He had already traveled to the South American country at least three times. Now the DEA alerted local authorities to pay attention to Pitt, described as a thick-built person with tattoos and a height close to the metro at eighty, who was watching over his communications with encrypted messages to his links.
In coordination with US authorities, they set up a deployment in the exclusive condominium to arrest him. According to what was reported by the Colombian National Police, the follow-up took more than a month and a half. Photographs taken in the distance showed him shirtless, in the privacy of his room.
The Pitt implemented in South America the tactic used by drug cartels to ensure their alerts in operations. According to the official report, he had the sophisticated security structure that consists of the surveillance of the so-called hawks, who had to warn him about strange movements and protect his life and freedom.
The guard belonged to the group of Mexicans, who sent the alert to their boss. Upon learning that officers were nearby, Olguín Verdugo called the doorman of his building to ask if he knew anything. A security officer was already installed there, who took your call and answered that there was a routine procedure.
When his capture was early, he tried to bribe police officers with up to 1 billion Colombian pesos to let him go, but his effort was unsuccessful.
In a videotape shared by the institutions, he is distressed, asking for details in the reading of the arrest warrant for extradition purposes. Now it remains for it to be sent for trial in the United States.
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