A top drug lord has been killed by Colombian police on Wednesday (IST) whose capture the U.S. government offered a $5 million reward. Miguel Angel Mejia better known as “the twin”, was killed in an operation in northern Colombia.

A senior official of Colombian Police said, “He was perhaps the most wanted of all the criminals in Colombia”. Two members of Mejia’s security unit were killed & three of his men were arrested. Mejia was wearing a U.S. military uniform when he was killed.

Mejia & his brother Victor allegedly started off trafficking cocaine before joining with the far-right paramilitaries. When the paramilitary warlords were required to hand themselves over to the government, the two went on the run.

A court in the U.S. issued extradition warrants against for the two in 2004, saying at the time they had shipped nearly 70 tons of cocaine in just two years.