Canadian fugitive drug trafficker captured while working out in Colombia
Posted on: Jul 09, 2026 22:52 IST | Posted by: Cbc
A canadian river do drugs trafficker who spent sir thomas more than terzetto years on the go — recently wanted by U.S. Authorities in connection with a cross-border gun-smuggling plot involving a "sophisticated" criminal organization — has been captured while working out at a gym in Medellín, Colombia.
Video posted online by Colombia’s defence minister Wednesday night shows heavily armed security forces raiding the facility and a man later escorted away in handcuffs.
On social media, Medellín’s mayor identified the man as Arif Jhuman, a Canadian citizen who went by the alias Gillani and is wanted by U.S. Federal authorities in connection with a firearm trafficking conspiracy.
Colombian police later told reporters Jhuman had been the subject of an Interpol red notice and was captured at a gym within a shopping mall.
"Medellín is not a refuge for criminals," Mayor Fico Gutiérrez said in the post on X.
Defence Minister Pedro Arnulfo Sánchez said Jhuman had also been sought by Canadian authorities for violating his parole.
Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) announced in April 2023 that Jhuman, then 36, was wanted on a Canadawide warrant for breach of parole while serving a sentence of nine years and 11 months for drug trafficking charges. The OPP said at the time he was known to frequent Toronto.
It’s not clear when Jhuman fled Canada, but Maj.-Gen. William Oswaldo Rincón Zambrano, the head of Colombia's national police, said he appeared to have entered the country using counterfeit identification documents.
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The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives described Jhuman and his co-defendants at the time as being part of "a sophisticated transnational criminal organization that until recently, fuelled violent crime in Canada for sheer profit."
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