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May 19, 1955 - Francisca Cortés Picazo

As the matriarch of a family-based drug operation, she built and sustained a heroin and cocaine distribution network centered in Son Banya, a Romani neighborhood in Majorca, for years before her arrest. The clan structure she led made the organization both resilient and deeply embedded in the community. Operation Kabul, which resulted in her arrest alongside nineteen others in 2008, reflected the scale of coordinated effort required to dismantle it.

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Francisca Cortés Picazo (born 20 May 1955), more commonly known as "La Paca", is a Spanish drug lord, and matriarch of the Romani drug clan known as "La Paca" clan.

The clan operated out of the predominantly Romani neighbourhood of Son Banya on the island of Majorca dealing heroin and cocaine.

Arrest

La Paca was arrested on July 2, 2008 in Son Banya, along with 19 others, by the Civil Guard in an operation dubbed Operation Kabul.

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