2023-07-31 05:52:10
Sebastian Enrique Marcette Cabrera (32 years old) is wanted on charges of drug smuggling in his hometown of Uruguay, in addition to Paraguay, Brazil, the United States and the International Police (Interpol), and he had fled outside the country and moved between several countries to avoid arrest.
“A series of raids were carried out in the province of Santa Cruz (…) to capture a major drug trafficker in our region and the entire world,” said Bolivian Interior Minister Eduardo del Castillo.
“We have mobilized more than 2,250 police officers and more than 144 vehicles, carried out more than 23 operations and six raids, and arrested 12 people,” he added.
The Bolivian authorities suggest that Marcette Cabrera is located in the vast Santa Cruz region bordering Brazil and Paraguay in southeastern Bolivia.
Del Castillo pledged that he would succeed “in the coming hours in arresting Mr. Sebastian Enrique Marcette Cabrera,” noting that his Peruvian wife and three of his children were accompanying him.
Heavily armed police raided a luxury home in Santa Cruz, home to regarding 1.9 million people, and entered other locations in the city near La Paz, according to an AFP journalist.
The Minister of Interior indicated that Sunday’s raids led to the confiscation of 17 rifles, a pistol, regarding 2,000 rounds of ammunition, 31 vehicles, and bulletproof vests.
– A prison in the UAE –
The authorities believe that Marcette Cabrera entered Bolivia last September and carried out public activities, including the purchase of a football club that plays in the country’s second division.
Two years ago, Marcette Cabrera was arrested in the UAE on charges of using a forged Paraguayan passport, but he managed to escape using identity documents from Uruguay.
The authorities accuse him of being one of the most powerful drug traffickers in the Southern Cone, which includes Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Brazil.
Marcette Cabrera has been linked to the uncle of former Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes, who was convicted of marijuana trafficking.
Last year, Colombian President Gustavo Petro revealed in a tweet that Marcette Cabrera was behind the assassination of Paraguayan anti-mafia prosecutor Marcelo Picchi, who was killed on the Colombian island of Baru in May 2022 while he was spending his honeymoon with his wife at a resort.
Last May, two Colombian brothers were sentenced to 25 years and six months in prison for their involvement in the killing. Andres and Ramon Perez paid regarding $340,000 to Beachy’s shooter, according to prosecutors.
But Pietro revealed that Marcette Cabrera had masterminded the assassination.
“The investigation into the crime … committed by the drug trafficker Marcette on Colombian soil shows that drug trafficking has long ceased to be a bilateral Colombian-American problem, but today it has become an American and global problem,” he said in August.
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