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Colombian police arrested a woman suspected of trafficking arms for the country’s largest rebel group FARC and wanted by Peru.
The 40-year-old Gilma Montenegro was arrested in Mocoa, a town in the southern department of Putumayo, which borders Ecuador.
According to local police commander Orlando Polo, the woman spent six months in an Ecuadorean jail for the illegal purchase and sale of weapons, is suspected of providing arms to the FARC’s Southern Bloc, and has is the subject of an international arrest warrant from Peru.
The woman will be sent from Mocoa to a jail in Bogota to await extradition.
