Colombia's most wanted drug lord is captured in jungle hideout: Kingpin 'Otoniel' is arrested after raid by more than 500 special forces troops 'in biggest blow to cocaine trafficking since fall of Escobar'
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Colombia's most wanted drug trafficker has finally been captured by security forces after evading arrest for more than a decade.
Dairo Antonio Usuga David, known by his alias Otoniel, is accused of sending dozens of shipments of cocaine to the United States and orchestrating a ruthless drugs empire, killing police officers, recruiting minors, and sexually abusing children among other crimes.
He was arrested on Saturday in the Uraba region of Colombia when a military force of over 500 soldiers descended on his jungle hideout, marking the culmination of a decade-long manhunt dubbed operation 'Osiris.'
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