‘Cocaine Queen’ beheaded disabled man in gruesome ‘initiation’ to feared drug cartel

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drug cartels has opened up about how she beheaded a disabled man during a gruesome initiation ceremony.During an interview with investigative journalist Marianna Van Zeller for new National Geographic show Trafficked, Sonja told how she was ordered to commit the act when she was aged just 16.Nicknamed the "Cocaine Queen", she said: “He begged me not to kill him.“I didn’t want to do it but my boyfriend said if I didn’t kill him I wouldn’t be accepted into the group.“To show him I was worthy, he gave me a machete and told me to cut his throat.“I didn’t want to do it, but he insisted.

We cut off his head and threw it in the river.”Sonja is a member of the Los Caparros cartel – also known as the Virgilio Peralta Arenas Front - based in Colombia.According to insightcrime.org, the group controls cocoa plantations in the Uraba region, and turned them into cocaine factories, shipping the drug all over the world.It currently has power over around 12,000 hectares of cocoa leaf plantation, while also being involved in illegal mining.The later is said to bring in around £500,000 per month just from one mine in the rural area of El Bagre.The gang is known for its cold-hearted acts of brutality, which recently involved kidnapping a coach load of young footballer players, on their way to play a local match.Just three were freed, while another was found dead.Sonja admitted that they were kidnapped in the hope of “recruiting” them, which would have forced them into becoming narco-soldiers.She refused to confirm if any of them were still alive, but said: “If they say yes, we send them to the troop.