Our trendy world’s obsession with splashing our lives for public consumption on social media can change into fairly problematic, particularly if you’re needed by the US DOJ.
That’s precisely the case for this fugitive drug cartel chief, who was arrested in London after his spouse’s social media posts about their holidays gave away his location.
The Telegraph reported:
“Luis Grijalba, needed within the US on fees of exporting cocaine from Costa Rica, was arrested by British police after a tip-off from their American counterparts, who had been monitoring images of their travels posted by Estefania McDonald Rodriguez, his spouse.”
The UK’s Nationwide Crime Company detained Grijalba close to the London Bridge, after the he arrived together with his spouse in London on a luxurious vacation to rejoice the New 12 months.
“The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) had been in a position to comply with Grijalba’s actions by means of posts from Ms. Rodriguez that included snaps of the couple posing in entrance of the Eiffel Tower.
She had additionally posted photos of herself in entrance of Rome’s Trevi Fountain, in a gondola in Venice, and crossing a river in Japan.”
Rodriguez postings of romantic moments around the globe together with her husband Luis Grijalba have value him his freedom.
She is a supervisor at a magnificence salon in Costa Rica’s port metropolis of Limón.
On a publish of image from Rome, she wrote that ‘a visit is lived 3 instances: after we dream it, after we reside it, after we bear in mind it’.
“Her Instagram account, which had 21,000 followers, has since been deleted, although her Fb account – the place lots of the images had been posted – stays open.”
Randall Zúñiga, from Costa Rica’s Judicial Investigation Company, famous that Grijalba’s spouse was rather a lot much less cautious than him in hiding their actions.
“’His spouse travelled in a foreign country rather a lot and posted about it on social media’, Zuñiga stated. ‘They went to Colombia and Europe rather a lot. That they had recorded a number of journeys. She uploaded plenty of photographs’.”
Grijalba is preventing extradition to the US, the place he’ll face an extended jail sentence if convicted.
The cartel chief has survived two assassination makes an attempt again in Costa Rica. On one occasion he needed to behind a tree, whereas seven members of his gang had been killed.
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