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BOGOTA (Reuters) - A sixth person is suspected in the murder last month of a Paraguayan prosecutor vacationing in Colombia, the head of Colombia's national police said on Tuesday, adding a Brazilian gang initially planned to carry out the murder in Paraguay.

César Ortíz, leader of the Paraguayan drug dealing gang Rotela Clan, was captured hours after he escaped an Asunción prison dressed as a woman.

A $32 million shipment of cocaine was seized in Brazil after a police sniffer dog found the illegal drugs inside a delivery truck of cookie boxes.

Paraguayan and Colombian authorities Thursday announced progress was being made in the investigation of Prosecutor Marcelo Peccis May 10 murder while honeymooning in an exclusive Caribbean beach resort.

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RIO DE JANEIRO—Brazil's justice ministry said on Sunday that federal police had captured the No. 2 leader of ...

Valdeci Alves dos Santos, known as Colorido, was captured on Saturday in the northeastern town of Salgueiro, the justice ministry said. Much of the top leadership has been in prison for years; Colorido was the gang's No. 2 among those still living in liberty, the ministry said. In 2020, PCC trafficker Gilberto Aparecido dos Santos, aka "Fuminho," was captured in Mozambique, in a sign of the gang's growing international footprint.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil's justice ministry said on Sunday that federal police had captured the No. 2 leader of the First Capital Command (PC...

Brazil\'s justice ministry said on Sunday that federal police had captured the No. 2 leader of the First Capital Command (PCC), the country\'s most powerful prison gang and a major exporter of cocaine.

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