During a plea bargaining, the Third Special Penal Circuit Court in Buga (Valle del Cauca) has imposed 26 years of imprisonment to Elkin Casarrubia Posada, one of the former leaders of “Calima block” from self-defenses group AUC for the offence of aggravated homicide.
Indeed, Casarrubia Posada, alias “Priest”, during proceedings carried out before a Human Rights and IHL Prosecutor, has accepted to be accomplice to commit murder against Ruben Dario Valencia Sanchez, William Tapiero Gallego, William Rodríguez Pérez, Felipe Rojas Hernández and Carlos Alberto Patino.
On June 29, 2003, the persons were killed when they were at a kiosk in “Nueva Frontera” neighborhood in Buenaventura town, where members of the above-mentioned illegal armed organization became and shot them.
Casarrubia Posada who commanded the “Calima block” along with Ever Veloza Garcia, alias HH, was imprisoned in a jail in Medellin and Veloza Garcia was extradited to United States in March 2009.