Who was Reinaldo Fuentes? Why was he thrown into Caribbean sea?

Someone dumped a fugitive Venezuelan drug trafficker Reinaldo Fuentes known as Taliban alive in the ocean with his hands zip-tied and an anchor around his waist in revenge for stealing 450 pounds of cocaine and cash from a cartel.

Reinaldo Fuentes, 68, appears with blood stains on the back of his head in the shocking video shared online, as his killers struggle to lift him over the side of a boat into the Caribbean Sea near Martinique. The killers then dump Fuentes overboard and leave him to drown.

Rafael Tolentino, a veteran journalist, revealed on 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 authorities unable to detect him.

They allegedly controlled drug dealing in the Bonao neighborhood of Buenos Aires, where they allegedly earned the ‘Taliban’ nickname due to illicit dealings with Middle Eastern drug traffickers.

Fuentes executed a daring heist, hijacked a cartel's massive 450-pound cocaine shipment worth a staggering $10 million, and absconded with the cash. He initially discarded the drugs at sea, concocting a fictitious coast guard pursuit to explain his failure to deliver the narcotics to his superiors. However, his associates turned informants, ultimately sealing his watery fate.

Who was Reinaldo Fuentes

Reinaldo Fuentes, a 68-year-old Venezuelan drug dealer known as 'Taliban,' faced a grim end in the Caribbean Sea near Martinique. Fuentes, embroiled in a tumultuous drug feud, experienced being handcuffed, gagged, and attached to an anchor before his assailants cast him into the unforgiving waters.

Fuentes had managed to maintain an alias, Miguel Fulcar, using a fake national identification document in the Dominican Republic. He led a seemingly ordinary life, dating a prominent lawyer and caring for her daughter in the city of Bonao.

His criminal legacy stretched back to his hometown in Venezuela, where he earned the moniker 'Taliban' due to his illicit dealings with Middle Eastern drug traffickers. Two of his associates met a violent end in a police shootout in Buenos Aires, and authorities reportedly linked a cache of weapons seized from a Bonao residence to Fuentes.

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