Ten-year manhunt ends as Costa Rica arrests most wanted drug kingpin ‘El Diablo’
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SAN JOSE, July 25 — Costa Rican police arrested the country's most wanted drug trafficker Friday, in an operation that left one person dead and eight injured, officials...
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The United States had offered US$500,000 (RM2.05 million) for the arrest of Alejandro Arias Monge, who is known as “El Diablo”, before he was taken into custody Friday morning in Rio Frio, in the northeastern province of Heredia, Costa Rica's Attorney General Carlos Diaz told reporters.
Diaz said law enforcement targeted a meeting of leaders of criminal organisations on a rural property where another leader, Roney Rios, was killed.
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