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Colombian police have arrested one of the South American country’s main drug lords, Erikson Vargas, who is also known as Sebastian, BBC online reports Thursday.
He was the head of an underworld organisation called the “Office of Envigado”, based in the Medellin area of northwestern Colombia.
President Juan Manuel Santos described the arrest in Antioquia province as “a superblow to crime.”
Colombia’s Defence Minister, Juan Carlos Pinzon, said the organisation “killed more people than any other criminal network in Colombia in the last 10 years”.
He said there was an extradition order against Sebastian and that the authorities intended to send him to face justice in the United States.
“Sebastian was the main target of the Colombian police. This is the hardest blow against Colombia’s criminal organisations this year,” said Mr Pinzon.
The organisation was set up by one of Colombia’s most notorious drug lords, Pablo Escobar.
Its main job was that of collecting debts on behalf of the Medellin Cartel. Those who failed to pay their debts were often brutally killed, BBC notes.
