Manuel Antonio Silva Jaramillo, 68 years old, allegedly linked to the Colombian drug trafficking cartel of Valle del Cauca, was captured in Lechería (Anzoátegui), according to judicial sources.
The Minister of the Interior, Justice and Peace, Remigio Ceballos, confirmed the information on his twitter account from where he added that “The Bolivarian National Police Corps has given a strong blow to drug trafficking”.
The capture of Silva Jaramillo occurred in the Diego Bautista Urbaneja (Lechería) municipality, Anzoátegui, house boat B, house 186, according to a report from the Directorate of Strategic and Tactical Actions (Anti-Drugs) Caracas Base of the Bolivarian National Police (PNB). , to which we had access.
In addition to his ties to the Valle del Cauca cartel, Silva Jaramillo is classified as “an operator of the Drug Control Administration, american agency known by the acronym DEA, refers to the Polinacional report.
During the capture of the subject, the National Prosecutor 70 against Drugs was present.
One of the activities that Silva Jaramillo carried out in Venezuela was the purchase and sale of aircraft, many of which have been seized with drugs in different countries, mainly in Sierra Leone.
That is why, once the subject was captured, the PNB carried out a series of raids where they seized 17 aircraft, among others.
One of the search warrants, BP01-P-2023-000770, was carried out at the Ciaca Hangar, located on Avenida Fuerzas Armada in Barcelona (Anzoátegui), where they seized five aircraft with the registrations YV2788, YV3425, YV3483, YV186E and YV3473. They also seized a Toyota Hilux license plate A53CN8M and several documents of criminal interest.
Likewise, in Lechería, they seized a house and two vehicles belonging to Silva Jaramillo.
In Anaco (Anzoátegui) there were raids with the seizure of 12 aircraft, 4 vehicles, a yacht-type vessel, a house, 5 aircraft engines and an airplane propeller.
The PNB continues the operations to locate and arrest the rest of the members of that drug trafficking network, the sources explained.
