Venezuela detains drug boss 'Big Papa'

Venezuela has detained a suspected Colombian drug boss, Salomon Camacho, who is on the US list of most wanted cocaine traffickers.

Nicknamed "Big Papa", 65-year-old Camacho has a $5 million bounty on his head, a reward usually offered for high-profile drug traffickers and cartel leaders.

"We got him this week and we will deport him," a source at the anti-narcotics agency told Reuters on Sunday.

The notorious drug lord was arrested this week in Valencia, an industrial city in western Venezuela.

The US Drug Enforcement Administration said that Camacho, a former partner of the deceased leader of the Medellin cartel Pablo Escobar, managed to transfer 9 tonnes of cocaine to the United States between 1999 and 2000.

Presently, Camacho is with Colombia's Guajira Cartel and maintains strong ties to Dominican trafficking organizations, which launder the drug money.

Venezuelan officials did not mention where Camacho will be deported to, but last year they transferred several alleged drug bosses to Colombia and the United States.

Source: PressTV.
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