At 3:00 am on Wednesday, October 12, a troop of more than 600 uniformed officers from the Bogotá Metropolitan Police, the Prosecutor’s Office, the CTI Bogotá and the Sijín raided the streets of the neighborhoods of El Amparo, Bellavista, Patio Bonito, the corridor of diagonal 38, gate 8 of Corabastos and the María Paz sector to achieve the capture of 19 members of the feared Venezuelan gang the Tren de Aragua.
The police operation, which was forged for more than nine months and included the infiltration of a special agent, had the objective of dismantling the criminal income of those from Aragua, who took over this sector of Kennedy following the key blow that the Bogota Prosecutor’s Office gave them. to the so-called Camilos, who had reigned in the business of drug trafficking, prostitution and hired assassins in Kennedy and Bosa until 2020 and that ended with the capture of their maximum ringleader.
the common thread
An interception of telephone calls and the triangulation of different telephone subscribers in various parts of the city began to reveal a criminal network that extended through various sectors of Kennedy.
Little by little, the faces of crime and the leaders who controlled the drug trafficking business between Colombia and Venezuela began to appear; among them, Lieutenant Víctor Manuel Flechas, of the Bogotá Police, who commanded the CAI Caldas, located right on one of the sides of Corabasto and at the entrance gate to the sector that dominated the Aragua Train.
The audios of the interceptions showed an entire organizational framework that distributed the people of the Venezuelan capo alias Niño Guerrero (held in the Tocoró prison, Venezuela) in different echelons of the criminal chain that extended in Bogotá.
However, the person in charge of leading the criminal operation in Kennedy is known as alias Giovanni, who is in Venezuela (and on whom a blue Interpol circular weighs). He would be the direct contact of alias Osmer, located in Bogotá and who was one of the capos captured in the operations of October 12. He was the one sent to handle the criminal threads directly in the city.
But one of the key pieces to put together the puzzle of the criminal situation in Bogotá was the tracking of those responsible for the bodies that appeared dismembered and packed in garbage bags. Of the 25 cases, four were resolved and were attributed to members of this gang.
the organization chart
But the capture of alias Osmer was only the beginning of the whole plot. The organization was made up of area administrators, missionaries, in charge of selective assassinations in the city, and a group of women whose job was to transport weapons, drugs and ammunition between homes and even sectors.
Alias Brayan (captured) was in charge of the financial administration of the structure, coordinated the payment for the acquisition of narcotics, firearms, lodging, food for the members of the Train and ordered the execution of homicides. In his own rank, alias Cachorro (Colombian), logistics leader who transported weapons and ammunition aboard a taxi. Alias T, the police lieutenant who fell in the operations, was also on that line.
Now, among those captured, the administrators of the zones also fell: in Bellavista, Patio Bonito Kennedy, alias Ronald, Kimayer and Huesos. In the sector of diagonal 38, alias William, Daniel and Capi fell; and in the Bosa San Bernardino, Edwar and Ricardito.
They were in charge of extortion and sowing terror in the areas controlled by the criminal structure. For now, the authorities have announced more operations and there are four Interpol blue circulars waiting to be effective in capturing four of the most important capos of this gang.
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