Cartel boss on US ‘most wanted’ list captured in Bolivia raid
Sebastian Enrique Marset Cabrera, who had a US$2 million bounty on his head, was immediately put on a plane to be transferred to the US
An alleged cocaine boss with a US$2 million bounty on his head was captured by Bolivian forces as the Andean nation renews cooperation with the US after decades of hostility.
Dozens of antinarcotics police raided two houses in Santa Cruz in the early hours of Friday, with snipers positioned on nearby rooftops.
Their target, Uruguayan citizen Sebastian Enrique Marset Cabrera, was immediately put on a plane to be transferred to the US by the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Bolivia’s President Rodrigo Paz said the arrest would be the first of many to free the nation from “crime, drug trafficking, corruption and impunity”.
Paz, an ally of US President Donald Trump, took office in November, ending two decades of almost-unbroken socialist rule in the country.
The capture came less than a week after the first face-to-face meeting between Paz and Trump at the Shield of the Americas Summit in Doral, Florida.