Costa Rica arrests most wanted drug trafficker ‘El Diablo’
Costa Rican police arrested the country’s most wanted drug trafficker Friday, in an operation that left one person dead and eight injured, officials said.
About 2,500 bullets were fired and eight police officers were injured in the operation, Diaz said.
The United States had offered a $500,000 for the arrest of Alejandro Arias Monge, who is known as “El Diablo,” before he was taken into custody Friday morning in Rio Frio, in the northeastern province of Heredia, Costa Rica’s Attorney General Carlos Diaz told reporters.
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