THE DEATH PENALTY FOR STEALING FROM THE DRUG CARTELS

Venezuelan narco named 'Taliban' is dumped alive in the Caribbean Sea after cocaine takedown

Reinaldo Fuentes, who stole cartel's 450lb shipment of cocaine, is found in Dominican Republic and tossed ALIVE into ocean with anchor tied to his waist

 

By Adry Torres 

 

Daily Mail

Aug 29, 2023

 

Reinaldo Fuentes, a Venezuelan drug trafficker, lies flat inside a raft moments before he was tossed in the Caribbean Sea near Martinique in July

Fuentes is lifted from the raft moments before he was tossed in to the Caribbean Sea after being accused of stealing millions of dollars worth of cocaine

 

This is the moment a fugitive Venezuelan drug trafficker known as Taliban is dumped alive in the ocean with his hands zip-tied and an anchor around his waist in revenge for stealing 200 kilograms of cocaine - and cash - from the Cartel.

Reinaldo Fuentes is seen bound and gagged with blood stains on the back of his head before his killers struggle to heave him - and the anchor - over the side of a boat into the Caribbean Sea near Martinique.

The footage, shared to social media, shows Fuentes staring at the person recording the video. He is then dumped overboard and left to drown.

None of his kidnappers are identified but one is heard in the background of the video saying 'he has no way to save himself'.

In an elaborate - and poorly thought out - ruse, Fuentes, a middleman for the Venezuelan Cartel del Golfo, earlier had dumped a shipment of narcotics at sea and fabricated a fake coast guard pursuit to explain not bringing the drugs back to his bosses and kept the cash.

He then went back out on the water to collect the cocaine, repackaged it and took it to another Caribbean island.

But the scheme went awry when his henchmen snitched, leading to his watery demise on July 18 - a day after he was invited to a cartel meeting.

Veteran journalism Rafael Tolentino revealed Monday on 'Esto No Es Radio,' a daily morning show in the Dominican Republic, that Fuentes obtained a fake national identification document that allowed him to live under the name of Miguel Fulcar in the Dominican Republic, making it impossible for him to be detected by authorities.

Sources told Tolentino Fuentes entered the country July 14 and was there for two days before leaving.

Fuentes was reportedly dating a prominent lawyer in the Dominican city of Bonao. 

Sources told Tolentino that Fuentes was murdered because he had been involved with stealing a multi-million-dollar cocaine shipment destined for Tortola, the largest of the British Virgin Islands.

 

Fuentes accepted money for 200 kilos of cocaine and then stole the drugs in an elaborate plot. But, his fellow drug traffickers ratted him out

Fuentes was living in Venezuela, but got fake identification that let him live in the Dominican Republic after the alleged theft

Fuentes had his hands bound and had an anchor tied to his body as he was dumped into the sea

He was kidnapped on July 17 and the next day was taken out to the Caribbean sea 

'He still doesn't have a way to free himself,' one of the men in the background could be heard saying before the video comes to an end

 

Fuentes left his Dominican home and was lured to a cartel meeting at an unknown location on July 17. That is when he was kidnapped and dumped at sea the next day. 

In the video, a gang member ensured that the executioners' faces were not shown on film. 

Two men then struggled to lift Fuentes off the raft because he had an anchor wrapped around his body to prevent him from saving himself. They subsequently dump him headfirst into the sea.

The video ends with a distant image of Fuentes floating in the water with no effort to save him. 

It's unclear if authorities have made any arrests in the case - or if they are even investigating the killing.