(CNN) -- A Colombian airstrike over the weekend killed a high-ranking rebel commander who was wanted in the United States, police said.
Sixto Antonio Cabana Guillen was among the more than two dozen guerrillas killed in a Colombian air force bombing operation Sunday, Colombia's National Police said Monday.
The U.S. State Department had been offering a reward of up to $2.5 million for information leading to his arrest or conviction.
Cabana, as a top member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, helped set policies directing and controlling the production and distribution of hundreds of tons of cocaine to the United States and the world, according to a statement on the State Department's website.
At least 27 people from the Marxist guerrilla group, known as FARC, were killed in Sunday's operation in southern Colombia, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said.
Colombian National Police Director Gen. Oscar Naranjo said Cabana's death was "a blow to the terrorist heart of the FARC".
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