Jose Garcia Cosme

Jose A. Garcia Cosme (1957-September 2, 2019) better known as Papo Cachete ("Papo Cheeks") was a Puerto Rican convicted drug dealer.[1] He was one of the leaders of the illegal drug trade in the city of Caguas from the late 1970s to the late 1980s.

Jose Garcia Cosme (Papo Cachete)
Born
Jose A. Garcia Cosme

1957
Caguas, Puerto Rico
DiedSeptember 2, 2019
Gurabo, Puerto Rico
Other names"Papo Cachete"
Occupationdrug dealer

Biography

Garcia Cosme was the leader of a drug trafficking organization in Caguas and is considered to be the precursor of the era of the 90s in drug dealing in the area, the person who led to the rise of other well known Puerto Rican alleged drug dealers from Caguas such as Edsel Torres Gomez, as well as Miguel Rivera Newton Aka Cano Newton, Jaime Davila Reyes, Aka Peluche, Cano Navarro, Aka Gordo Fen, Aka Jumbo and others.[2]

Authorities believe that Garcia Cosme was the mastermind behind an escape that occurred on April 17, 1991 at the Oso Blanco prison in San Juan,[3] where a helicopter landed inside the prison, allowing some prisoners to escape.

Garcia Cosme had a long criminal history dating back to the 1980s. He was arrested during 2013, convicted of drug dealing and sent to a federal prison in the United States.[4]

His sister, Luz Garcia Cosme, was arrested during 2015 at the Residencial Bonneville Heights apartment complex.[5]

Death

Papo Cachete was released during 2019 and was beginning to live out a sentence of eight years in supervised liberty when he was assassinated on September 2, 2019, as he was driving towards an exit to Caguas in the nearby city of Gurabo.[1] The assailant or assailants fired multiple shots at the compact car, a Suzuki SX-4, that Garcia Cosme was driving. Four hours after his death, his accountant, 35-year-old Javier Vazquez Garcia (no relation) was also murdered of multiple shots at Vazquez Garcia's home in Carolina, Puerto Rico.[6]

Thoughts about drugs problems

Cachete believed the Puerto Rican government bore some responsibility for the drug related problems the island has faced:"The government has to open its doors to people, because the government is the first to take violence to the "caserios" (residential complexes in Puerto Rico). (The government) has to give more school opportunities, that way there will be better communication and better life (for caserio residents). Don't take more violence to the caserios, because a (police) operation is a violence at the caserio" he once declared during an interview with Primera Hora newspaper.[3]

He also declared, during the same interview, that ambition led him to his criminal profession, declaring that "I went into this because of my ambition for money. it was an ambition for money, to have what other people had. One saw someone else with 25 dollars and one also wanted to have that".

See also

References
  1. "¿Quién era el notorio narcotraficante Papo Cachete?". El Nuevo Día.
  2. VOCERO, Miguel Rivera Puig, EL. "Confirman la muerte de Papo Cachete". El Vocero de Puerto Rico.
  3. "Ex narco da sus soluciones". Primera Hora.
  4. CyberNews, Metro Puerto Rico-. "Federales dan otro golpe al punto de "Papo Cachete" en Caguas". Metro.
  5. "Asesinan al notorio narco "Papo Cachete"".
  6. VOCERO, Miguel Rivera Puig, EL. "Asesinan a contable de narcotraficante Papo Cachete". El Vocero de Puerto Rico.
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