Vladimir Natera Abreu, one of the most wanted by the FBI, extradited to Puerto Rico

The alleged leader of the drug trafficker of the criminal organization “The FARC” and one of the most wanted fugitives by the FBI, Vladimir Natera Abreu, He was extradited to Puerto Rico this afternoon after being arrested in the Dominican Republic yesterday.

Natera Abreu was arrested yesterday along with Josef Yomar Rivera in an operation of the Dominican Republic’s National Drug Control Directorate (DNCD), in conjunction with officers from the United States Marshals Service Office.

“It was an operation due to an international catch requirement and it was delivered today. The flight took off at 3:18 pm, ”Carlos Devers, DNCD spokesperson, told El Nuevo Día by phone.

For a moment he doubted whether there would be any delay in extradition because the lawyers of the detainees had filed a habeas corpus.

Natera Abreu’s lawyer in Puerto Rico, Edwin Prado, hired the attorney in the Dominican Republic Valentin Medrano Peña object to the conditions of the catch.

“We were not allowed to access detainees to interact with them, which is a violation of the fundamental right enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic, such as the Dominican Code of Criminal Procedure,” Medrano Peña told El Nuevo Día.

In 2019, Natera Abreu was included in an accusing statement of a federal Grand Jury against 75 people associated with the gang “The FARC”.

The indictment includes 28 charges against Natera Abreu, whom they consider to be one of the gang’s leaders, attributing both violent crimes and drug trafficking.

According to an affidavit from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), authorities have been investigating the gang, along with other federal and local agencies, for drug trafficking in the Barrio Obrero area, El Guano, since April 2015. Playita, Calle William, Calle Once and Cantera, as well as the Villa Kennedy, Las Casas, El Mirador and Las Margaritas, and other parts of Santurce.