Agents from the Technical Investigation Team (CTI) in Cali attached to Buenaventura (Valle del Cauca) Local Unit, with the support of members from Colombian anti-extortion and kidnapping group (GAULA) of the National Navy, have caught Juan Gabriel Bautista Ponce in flagrante delicto when he was going to receive 160 thousand pesos, result of an extortion against to Lina Marcela Hernandez Montes, social communicator.
According to established, the accused supposedly demanded said amount of money to the victim in exchange of not to attempt on her life.
According to the investigation, Bautista Ponce who was captured in Las Palmas Hotel located in Naranjitos neighborhood, he was passing himself off as entrepreneur, and using a computer and a mobile phone, he contacted models and newsreaders or hostess nationally recognized.
This man selected their victims who were contacted and forced to hold erotic talks under threat of death. He also demanded to put credit on his mobile phone to them that occasionally amounted to 500,000 pesos.
The accused will appear, through CTI agents, before Sectional Prosecutor’s Office 42 – URI in Buenaventura town. This Prosecutor’s Office is in charge of the investigation for the offense of extortion