Drug Kingpin Arrested After Wife Posts Pictures Of Their Vacation Onlne
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Drug Kingpin Arrested After Wife Posts Pictures Of Their Vacation Online

It's safe to say that this marriage is probably headed for a divorce. Typically, couples fight about not taking out the trash or doing the dishes. Rarely, do they lead to an arrest and prison time. However, a wanted drug kingpin was done in not by a rate in his organization but by his own wife posting pictures of their vacation online.

It goes to show that someone is always watching on the internet. Authorities were able to track down the kingpin while he was on a European vacation. They arrested 43-year-old Luis Manuel Picado Grijalba at a London airport. He's been charged with drug trafficking, shipping cocaine from his home in Limón, Costa Rica.

According to La Prensa, the US Drug Enforcement Administration has had Grijalba, who goes by Shock, on their radar for several months. However, there was nothing they could do. The kingpin rarely travels, and Costa Rica didn't offer an extradition process to bring him to the United States. But he purchases $20,000 plane tickets to go to Europe.

Drug Kingpin Busted

Randall Zúñiga the director of Costa Rica's Judicial Investigation Department (OIJ). said that's where he slipped up. His wife, Estefania McDonald Rodriguez, posted several photos on her now-deleted Instagram.

A highly sought-after drug kingpin was captured when officials tracked his wife's social media account and pinpointed his location during their lavish European vacation. Authorities used these photos to track down the drug kingpin and arrest him.

Costa Rica's Attorney General Carlo Diaz commented on the arrest.

"For us it is also an important capture, because we had not yet been able to attribute any criminal act to him in our country, but I repeat, he has been linked in some investigations to drug trafficking in Limón," Díaz, according to Teletica.

Meanwhile, President Rodrigo Chaves Robles and security Minister Mario Zamora questioned the arrest.

"It is outrageous that the Costa Rican police, I mean the Judicial Investigation Agency, the Judiciary and the Attorney General's Office, with everyone knowing what Shock does, do not even have an open case against him, while the gringos leave the country and capture him in London. What do the gringos have that the OIJ does not have? Is it decency?" Chaves questioned, according to La Teja.