Operation Falcon: Dominican drug capo arrested in Colombia

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The seizing of a 9.5 ton shipment of drugs in a freight cargo has coincided with the arrest in Colombia of a Dominican said to have laundered around US$166 million in drug transacted money. El Tiempo of Colombia reports Erick Mosquea Polanco was behind a network that since 2012 trafficked in around 2,500 kilos of cocaine a week.

Erick Randhiel Mosquea Polanco, known as Rodolfo Beltrán, El Sony 7, El Chiquito, El Hombre, and/or Chite, was captured by the Colombian National Army and the Attorney General’s Office on Friday, 6 December 2024. He had accumulated approximately 166 million dollars through money laundering derived from drug trafficking.

At the time of his arrest, this Dominican, identified as the leader of the Falcon Network, dismantled in the country in September 2021, was located in a luxurious house in the Yerbabuena neighborhood of Chía, Cundinamarca, on...

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There's a few people in DR are going to fall next, who have been helping him wash money
 

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There's a few people in DR are going to fall next, who have been helping him wash money
This case started in 2021. At that time many of his family members including his father, mother and others were arrested and charged in Santiago.. See the article below.

 
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He is in Colombia. The US had to extradite him to the US. Takes some time I presume.....
Typically these guys cooperate for a lesser sentence. Leonel's former helicopter mechanic is one of the more well-known in recent times. 5 to 10 years in prison then they're deported back home to enjoy what's left of their ill-gotten gains.