BOGOTA , Colombia ( CNN ) -- Colombian police have killed a drug trafficker who the government says is one of the most sought-after fugitive outside the country 's rebel leaders . Victor Manuel Mejia Munera was a drug lord with ties to paramilitary groups , the Colombian government says . Victor Manuel Mejia Munera and two bodyguards were killed Tuesday when police tracked them down on a farm in the northwestern province of Antioquia , according to a statement on the Colombian presidency Web site . Three people also were arrested , according to the statement . Mejia Munera was wearing an American-style , desert-camouflage uniform when he was killed , said Colombian Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos . Mejia Munera also had short- and long-range weapons with ammunition , the presidential statement said . `` This is a great strike of the Public Force against the criminal structures of the country , '' Santos said , warning that drug traffickers who do not turn themselves over to the government will `` end up in the jail or in a tomb . '' In terms of the country 's most-wanted list , Mejia Munera was one of Colombia 's most sought-after criminals and ranked just below the leaders of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia , the statement said . The leftist guerilla group , which goes by its Spanish acronym FARC , holds about 750 hostages in the jungles of Colombia and has justified hostage-taking as a legitimate military tactic in a long-running civil war involving government forces , drug traffickers and right-wing paramilitaries . Mejia Munera is not alleged to have ties to FARC , but he had been involved with a right-wing paramilitary group known as United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia , according to the U.S. State Department . Mejia Munera and his brother , Miguel Angel Mejia Munera , known as `` Los Mellizos , '' or `` the Twins , '' have been accused of running major drug rings in Colombia . The brothers also have faced narcotics-trafficking charges in the United States . Santos initially told reporters that police had killed Miguel Angel Mejia Munera . The Colombian presidency later said the slain drug lord was actually Victor Manuel Mejia Munera . Fingerprints confirmed that the dead man was Victor Mejia Munera , Colombian-based Caracol Radio reported . The brothers sometimes exchanged identities , the radio station said , and identity documents belonging to Miguel Mejia Munera were found near Victor Mejia Munera . In 2004 , the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia indicted the twins on narcotics-trafficking charges . The U.S. Justice Department at one point offered a $ 5 million reward for `` true and effective information '' on the whereabouts of a dozen suspects it wanted extradited to the United States . One of the 12 men wanted was Miguel Mejia Munera . The State Department said Wednesday there was no reward for Victor Mejia Munera . The U.S. Treasury Department 's Office of Foreign Assets Control reported that the brothers have been involved in narcotics trafficking since the early 1990s , when they were guarding ships carrying cocaine from western Colombia to Mexico . `` Over time , '' OFAC said in a news release last year , the brothers `` rose through the ranks to lead their own narcotics trafficking organization . '' `` Recent reports indicate that Los Mellizos may be funding their own illegal armed groups to facilitate their narcotics trafficking activities , '' the release said . The Colombian prosecutor general 's office had indicted Victor Mejia Munera for his role in a 2004 paramilitary massacre of 11 farmers in Tame in the eastern Colombian province of Arauca , according to the State Department . E-mail to a friend .
NEW : Weapons , ammunition found with dead drug lord , Colombian government confirmed . NEW : Defense ministry warns drug lord will ` ` end up in the jail or in a tomb '' Victor Manuel Mejia Munera linked to paramilitaries , also reported in the country . The slain man was originally thought to be brother Miguel Angel Mejia .