​Sebastián Marset, the Uruguayan national identified by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration as one of its five highest-priority fugitives worldwide, was arrested in a pre-dawn raid in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, on Friday and transferred the same day to US custody, ending a three-year manhunt that had embarrassed law enforcement agencies across four countries and produced one of South America’s most public criminal careers.
Bolivia’s Fuerza Especial de Lucha Contra el Narcotráfico and the Unidad Táctica de Operaciones Policiales launched simultaneous raids in the Las Palmas neighbourhood of Santa Cruz at approximately 2:30 a.m., mobilising around 200 … Read More