One of Colombia’s most notorious drug kingpins, Henry de Jesus Lopez Londono, has been arrested in a suburb of Buenos Aires, police in Argentina said Wednesday.
Lopez Londono, a leader of the Los Urabenos cartel, was arrested late Tuesday at a restaurant in the town of Pilar, some 50 kilometers north of Buenos Aires, where he was dining with his bodyguards, a police source said.
He was to appear later Wednesday before a federal judge in the Argentine capital. An international arrest warrant had been issued for Lopez Londono. The head of Bogota’s national police force, Jose Roberto Leon told Caracol radio that Lopez Londono was wanted by Colombia on various charges including terrorism and drug trafficking.
He said an arrest warrant on drug trafficking charges had also been issued by a Florida court for Lopez Londono, who went by the nickname “Mi Sangre.”
Londono’s group, Los Urabenos, a powerful former paramilitary group, was named after the Uraba section of Antioquia in western Colombia, the group’s stronghold.
Argentina arrests Colombian drug kingpin
