The name of Nicolás Antonio Urango Reyes, alias ‘Nico’ or ‘Niñoco’, instilled terror not only in Cartagena but also in other departments of the Caribbean Coast such as Córdoba and Sucre.
In the capital of Bolívar they point out that he was the presumed determiner of at least 23 hired assassins that have occurred this year and of the three attacks that in the last 25 days, in the midst of the so-called “pistol plan” of the Clan del Golfo, left a policeman dead and two others wounded in the neighborhoods of El Carmelo, El Bosque and San José de Los Campanos. It may interest you: They neutralize two alleged members of the Clan del Golfo in Cartagena
They also implicate him with the frustrated attack with an explosive device last Wednesday, July 20, against the Los Caracoles Station. The Police indicated that the two individuals who would have thrown that grenade, which fortunately did not explode, are two foreigners who have been fully identified and who are now not only wanted by the authorities but by the Clan del Golfo.
More than 19 years of criminal activity, demobilized from the Auc, member of the criminal gangs ‘los Urabeños’ and ‘los Paisas’, and lately an urban leader of the Clan del Golfo in Cartagena describe the actions of ‘Nico’ in the underworld of underworld.
Urango and one of his closest accomplices, Édgar Alberto Cardales Miranda, alias ‘Jordan’, were killed in an operation that the Metropolitan Police carried out at dawn today in a ninth-floor apartment in one of the towers of the Parque residential complex. Heredia. Also read: They capture a fearsome hitman in Montería
The two subjects had been hiding in that place for about five days and, it seems, that they had rented that apartment for about three months. They were drinking liquor with a woman they had hired to spend the night when at about 3 am they were surprised by members of the Sijín, Sipol and Gaula who killed them in the middle of a shootout.
General Nicolás Zapata, commander of the Cartagena Metropolitan Police, reported that the result of the operation, carried out through a search proceeding with the Prosecutor’s Office, was thanks to accurate information provided by the community and for which a reward will be paid. During the work, two pistols, a revolver and two suppliers were seized. Read: Clan del Golfo: There are 10 attacks against the Police in Bolívar in 25 days
“This subject, alias ‘Niñoco, 38 years old and a native of Montería, was the urban leader of the Clan del Golfo in Cartagena and its insular area. “The other killed, ‘Jordan’, 28, was the third in command of the ‘Heroes del Caribe’ substructure and had a criminal record of about five years,” General Zapata explained to El Universal.
In the so-called “pistol plan” of the Clan del Golfo against the Police in Cartagena, patrolman William Jesús Palacios Izquierdo was assassinated on the morning of June 27, shortly after taking his shift at Los Caracoles Station.
A week and a half later, the victim was fellow patrolman Anderson Pérez Barrios after being shot on the night of July 9 in El Bosque. On Wednesday, July 20, in Los Campanos, the third police victim of the “pistol plan” in Cartagena was Chayanne Maguiver Bocanegra Timote, 30, who was surprised on his day off at her house, while he was fixing a motorcycle. It may interest you: Leaving shift: this is how they killed the 3 policemen in Cartagena and Bolívar
Demobilized from the Auc
After laying down his arms, after belonging to self-defense groups in Córdoba for several years, the alias ‘Niñoco’ reappeared in the press when he was captured in Montería for a homicide that had occurred months earlier in that city. At that time they pointed him out as a fearsome hitman.
In 2011 he was linked to an investigation into a massacre that occurred on April 4, 2010 in the Colina Real neighborhood of Montería, an event in which four young people were murdered. Nicolás Urango Reyes would be one of the assassins who shot them. The multiple crime was the work of the band ‘los Paisas’.
In April 2021, the Prosecutor’s Office prosecuted alias ‘Nico’ or ‘Niñoco’ for the attack against Jesús Ignacio Roldán Pérez, alias ‘Monoleche’, demobilized from the Auc, which occurred on July 16, 2020 on a farm near Montería.