DrugsMOSCOW, Apr 18 Colombian military and police detained one of the leaders of the Gulf Clan drug group «Fausto Palacios, known by the nickname Damned Patrick, was announced by the Minister of Defense of the country, Diego Molano. «Damn Patrick, the leader of the Gulf Clan, has been detained. He is one of the most wanted criminals in Sucre,» Molano wrote on Twitter. According to the Colombian Navy. , Palacios joined the Gulf Clan in 2012. In 2016, he was sent to the municipality of Santiago de Tolu in the sub-structure of the Manuel José Gaitan clan, and in 2021 he was appointed head of the armed wing of this sub-structure. A reward of 25 million Colombian pesos (6.6 thousand US dollars) was appointed for information about him. The Gulf Clan until recently united about one and a half thousand bandits, most of whom are demobilized military extreme right-wingers, under the leadership of Dairo Antonio Usugi (also known as Otoniel). Usuga was the most wanted criminal in Colombia for five years, on October 23 he was detained as a result of a military operation in the north-west of the country in the department of Antioquia. A young couple in Angarsk produced and sold drugs via the Internet
