Wanted Drug Baron Arrested After Wife Posted Their Vacation Pictures On Social Media


 

A drug cartel ringleader has been captured after his wife shared luxury holiday photos online, giving away his location.

Luis Manuel Picado Grijalba, 43, was arrested at a London airport in December after he was accused of shipping cocaine from Limón, Costa Rica to the US, Nicaragua’s La Prensa reported.

Grijabla, who goes by his alias “Shock,” was wanted by the US Drug Enforcement Administration for several months for his alleged involvement in international drug trafficking, said Randall Zúñiga the director of Costa Rica’s Judicial Investigation Department (OIJ).

Grijabla, who is a naturalized Costa Rican citizen, met his wife in Paris and had planned to ring in the New Year with his family in England before his arrest.

To document the vacation, Grijabla’s wife, Estefania McDonald Rodriguez, made several posts to a now-deleted Instagram account during her European travels, according to The Sun.

One post captured the couple posing underneath the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

Zúñiga said that Rodriguez frequently travelled abroad and posted about her adventures across her social media platforms, the outlet added.

She boasted about her vacations on sunny beaches, where she was spotted holding two parrots, and in Rome where she sat in front of the famed Trevi Fountain.

DEA agents, who had been tracking Grijabla since he took off from Costa Rica’s Juan Santamaría Airport, used the post of the couple in Paris to the suspected drug kingpin’s location, Costa Rican outlet Teletica reported.

The arrest was approved after the DEA obtained an international warrant.

The American agency wanted to capture Grijabla in Europe instead of Costa Rica as the Central American nation prohibits extradition of its citizens in the country.

Grijabla was in court the day after his arrest and is currently fighting his extradition to the US, where he could face a long jail sentence, the Sun reported.

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