Drug suspect is in custody
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One of the U.S. government’s most-wanted drug trafficking suspects, Hermagoras Gonzalez Polanco, has been captured in Venezuela, state television reported.
U.S. authorities accuse Gonzalez of leading a drug ring known as the Guajira cartel and being behind the smuggling of many tons of cocaine to the U.S. in the last decade.
Gonzalez holds dual Venezuelan and Colombian citizenship and has used aliases including “Gordito,” or Fatso.
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