2019News

How the authorities track drug dealers

César Emilio Peralta Adames is popularly known as César el Abusador, but that is not the only pseudonym he has. Listín Diario reports that Peralta, a fugitive from American and Dominican justice, is also known by his fellow drug dealers as el Patrón, Cabezón and by his first name, César.

According to online conversations intercepted by the United States authorities, Peralta was using code and encrypted messages to run his drug-dealing operation. He used different names to hide his identity and that of other drug dealers.

José Jesús Tapia Pérez, one of five gang heads who worked for César, used the name of Bola Negra or Boludo, and Ramón Antonio del Rosario Puente (Toño Leña) used BBPIN and Mangrino. According to the extradition file for César Peralta, it appears that Del Rosario Puente tried to communicate with him on several occasions but did not receive a reply. It appears that the contacts were made regarding an issue whereby el Abusador had refused to pay a debt he owed to Toño Leña.

The conversations that were intercepted were about the transport of hundreds of kilos of cocaine. In 2017, one of the members of the Del Rosario Puente group, Darys José Báez Melo, was arrested by Dominican authorities and alerted Del Rosario Puente and his son, Del Rosario Gautier, that they needed to change their numbers as they were being overheard by authorities.

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Listin Diario

10 September 2019