A preventive detention order with imprisonment was issued for Yohn Fredy Virguez Rodríguez for aggravated drug trafficking, manufacture and drug possession offenses; aggravated criminal conspiracy; murder and manufacturing, trafficking and possessing firearms, parts or ammunitions.
The defendant, aka Papa Picha, was the alleged leader of hitmen working for Los Bernabé criminal gang which operated in Ciudad Bolivar neighborhood located at south area of Bogotá. This organization was dismantled in august 2nd since fourteen of its alleged members were arrested and sent to prison.
Judicial Police of the Criminal Investigation Team (CTI in Spanish), in coordination with a prosecutor belonging to the so called unit ‘Unidad de Vida’, arrested alias Papa Picha in august 10th.