“El Conejo”, one of the most wanted criminals in Venezuela, dies after a months-long operation

Alias ​​“El Conejo”, one of the most wanted criminals in Venezuela for which the authorities offered a million dollars, fell dead on Thursday after a police operation lasting several months that left 36 detainees, the Interior Minister reported this Friday. remigio ceballos.

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‘He was shot down alias’Rabbit‘terrorist criminal, Carlos Enrique Gómez Rodríguez (…) wanted for the crimes of terrorism, extortion, kidnapping, homicide and other crimes”, Ceballos said in a statement broadcast by the state channel.

Gómez Rodríguez was the leader of a dangerous gang, known by the alias of its leader, which operates in the north-central state of Aragua. The delinquent was nicknamed that way because of the shape of his teeth.

Although the authorities had been looking for him for further than a year, was off the radar for several months until he confronted the police in February who, days later, offered a million-dollar reward for his capture, equivalent to little further of 186,000 minimum wages.

The minister did not offer specific details of how the fall of “Rabbit”, but indicated that he was killed after a operational police force that lasted for “several months” throughout the national territory, especially in the state of Aragua.

In it operational “all the citizen security organs and the Bolivarian National Armed Forces participated,” he said. after clarify that Gómez Rodríguez was in Irapa, Sucre state (northeast).

After several months of lengthy operations, the authorities captured 36 delinquentsthey seized 16 firearms, war material, portable radios, motorcycles and telephones.

In February of last year, another important criminal, Carlos Luis Revette, alias ‘El Koki’, was also killed, for whom the authorities offered a reward of $500,000.

Venezuela is, along with Honduras, the country further violence in Latin America, with almost 11,000 violent deaths between 2021 and 2022, according to the Venezuelan Observatory of Violence (OVV), a reference NGO due to the lack of official figures.

Source: Elcomercio

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