Miguel Ángel Mejía Múnera, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Colombian drug trafficker
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Place of Birth: Cali, Valle del Cauca Department, Colombia
About Miguel Ángel Mejía Múnera
- Miguel Ángel Mejía Múnera aka "El Mellizo" or "Pablo Mejía" or "Rafael Mejia" (born July 11, 1959) is a presumed Colombian drug lord and former paramilitary leader.
- Along with brother Víctor Manuel he created a drug cartel called "Los Nevados" out of a former paramilitary which they bought for US$ million dollars.
- The cartel buys illegal drugs from Daniel Barrera Barrera another drug lord working along with both the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) as well as paramilitaries.
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- The brothers have also been known to employ many ex-military and special bodyguards like Francisco Rivas Gonzales "Superman" who has disappeared, and believed to be somewhere in Mexico or Central America.
- Mejía-Múnera has son who was born in December 6th in NY; his presumed to be living with his mother in the US.
- Exact whereabouts are unknown.
- He also has 2 daughters who's whereabouts are unknown. According to the US Department of State the "Mellizos" have managed multi-ton cocaine transportation routes from the Caribbean Region of Colombia to the United States and Europe since the late 1990s.
- Their transportation and money laundering organization was conservatively estimated to have transported approximately 68 tons of cocaine over a two-year time period.
- In 2003 their organization was dismantled during a U.S.
- multi-jurisdictional effort called Operation Journey.
- That operation resulted in the seizure of 25 tons of cocaine and the arrest of 43 individuals, however, the Mejía-Múnera brothers escaped.Mejía-Múnera was also involved in the Paramilitary Peace Process until he failed to turn himself into the Government of Colombia in August 2006.
- In 2003, Miguel and brother Victor Mejía-Múnera were indicted in the Southern District of Florida for conspiracy to import cocaine.
- The US Department of State is offering a reward of up to US$5 million for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of Mejia-Munera.Colombian former minister of Defense Juan Manuel Santos informed that Mejia-Munera had five arrest warrants and one extradition petition by the United States.
- Colombian authorities also related the Cocaleros protest of the weeks before his death in the municipality of Tarazá to Mejía-Múnera as a strategy to distract authorities and escape.
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