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Leader of Colombia's Los Pelusos crime gang killed, president says
« on: September 28, 2019, 11:05:52 am »
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World News
September 27, 2019 / 10:37 AM / Updated 19 hours ago
Leader of Colombia's Los Pelusos crime gang killed, president says

BOGOTA (Reuters) - The top leader and founder of Colombia’s Los Pelusos crime gang has been killed in an operation led by the national police, President Ivan Duque said on Friday.

The gang is one of the most well-known criminal organizations in the Andean country and involved in fighting that has endangered hundreds of thousands of people in areas along the eastern border with Venezuela.

Luis Antonio Quintero, known by his alias Pacora, was a former leftist rebel who commanded some 440 gang members, the government said.

Read more at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-colombia-crime/leader-of-colombias-los-pelusos-crime-gang-killed-president-says-idUSKBN1WC1U6