A preventive detention order with imprisonment was issued by a supervisory judge in Quibdo (Chocó) against the journalist Leonardo Mario Montoya Garces since he was arrested in flagrancy while he was receiving money coming from extortion.
The arrest was carried out by the Technical Investigation Team in Chocó, in a restaurant located at Quibdo when he was receiving 30 million pesos from the mayor of Bagado municipality, Yasson Anilio Bedoya Renteria.