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Headline:Major cocaine trafficker nabbed at dinner in Bogota

A drug trafficker who worked with the Medellin and Cali cartels and led
narcotics operations in Peru has been arrested in Colombia,police said Sunday.

Waldo Vargas Arias,42 was captured Saturday night as he ate dinner with two
of his three sons and a cousin at a fair in the capital,Bogota.

Vargas confessed to police that he supplied raw cocaine to the drug
laboratories of Medellin cartel leader Pablo Escobar during the 1980s,said
Gen.Rosso Jose Serrano,the national police chief.