One of Brazil's Most Wanted Drug Traffickers, Leader of the PCC, Was Arrested in Bolivia and Sentenced to 126 Years in Prison.
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The detainee was sentenced to nearly 126 years in prison for international drug smuggling and abduction.
Gerson Palermo, identified as head of the First Capital Command, was located in Cotoca following a joint operation between Bolivian and Brazilian forces
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia’s anti-drug police captured on Tuesday a suspected Brazilian drug trafficker who would be one of the leaders of a criminal group linked to drug trafficking in that country.
Arrested this Tuesday in the region of Santa Cruz de La Sierra, in Bolivia, after spending six years away, Gerson Palermo — known as Pygmy and Germano — is pointed out by the authorities as one of the chiefs of the First Command of the Capital (PCC) and accumulates convictions that add up to almost 126 years in prison. At 68, he built a trajectory linked to international drug trafficking and one of the most daring kidnappings of Brazilian aviati…
SANTA CRUZ, 27 May (NOMADA NEWS/EP) The Bolivian authorities have extradited Gerson Palermo to Brazil this Wednesday, considered to be one of the leaders of the Brazilian criminal organization First Capital Command (PCC), who has remained at large since 2020 after being convicted in the neighboring country for drug trafficking crimes. Palermo, on which he is sentenced to almost 126 years in prison, has been handed over this Wednesday to the Braz…
The Bolivian authorities have confirmed on Tuesday the arrest in its territory of Gerson Palermo, on which it is sentenced to almost 126 years in prison while one of the leaders of the First Command of the Capital (PCC), the largest criminal group in Brazil.The Civil Guard recovers in Barbate the military boats stolen by drug traffickers during a maneuvers of the Navy The commander of the Special Force to Fight Drug Trafficking (FELCN) of Bolivi…
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