WORLD : High Medellin Figure Captured
BOGOTA, Colombia — Jose Ocampo Obando, believed to be the No. 5 man in the powerful Medellin cocaine cartel, was captured today, a day after authorities thwarted a possible bomb attack on Colombia’s undercover police headquarters.
Fifteen armed bodyguards were arrested along with Ocampo in an early morning raid on the Copper Virgin hacienda in the Uraba banana-producing region in northern Antioquia state.
Ocampo is allegedly the fifth-ranking figure in Medellin’s cocaine cartel, but authorities did not say if he is wanted on drug charges in the United States. Ocampo is not one of the U.S. Justice Department’s 12 most-wanted Colombian drug trafficking suspects.
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