OUTWITTING CALI'S PROFESSOR MORIARTY

THE MASTERMIND OF THE WORLD'S NO. 1 DRUG CARTEL, WHO HAS AWED POLICE FOR YEARS, FINALLY LANDS IN JAIL

Despite having bank accounts that have ranged as far afield as Hong Kong, in the past few years Josa Santacruz Londono has rarely ventured outside Cali, Colombia's cocaine capital. In recent weeks, though, word leaked that the reputed mastermind behind the world's No. 1 drug cartel had fled to Bogota, flushed from cover by an elite government strike force that had been chasing him for months. Santacruz is sometimes called "El Gordo" -- the Fat One -- and knowing he likes to eat, General Rosso Josa Serrano Cadena, chief of the Colombian National Police, ordered his men to stake out several...

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