In compliance with the strategy to clarify the acts committed against people in process of reincorporation defined by the Attorney General, Francisco Barbosa Delgado, the Special Investigation Unit (Unidad Especial de Investigación UEI) obtained a prison sentence against Yhon Edison Sarmiento Reyes, alias Yhon Negro, as alleged responsible for the death of José Alfredo García Gutiérrez, a former Farc member in process of reincorporation which took place on July 15, 2019 in rural area Salitre de La Uribe (Meta).
The arrested person Yhon Edison Sarmiento Reyes was an alleged member of the residual armed group E-40.
By virtue of a court order, UEI investigators, in an inter-institutional work with members of two Army battalions arrested Sarmiento Reyes in rural area of Papamene, La Uribe, on January 7th.
The Office of the Attorney General charged alias Yhon Negro with aggravated murder, conspiracy to commit a crime, and aggravated manufacturing, trafficking, possession of weapons, accessories, parts or ammunition. The defendant did not plead guilty.
The Office of the Attorney General makes this information public for reasons of general interest.
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The information contained in this press release corresponds to the narration of the objective news provided by the officials in charge of carrying out the criminal investigations within the Office of the Attorney General. By the time this communication is disclosed, the legal status of the people mentioned is still pending to be resolved by the competent judicial authority, always under the presumption of innocence contemplated by Article 29 of the Political Constitution and Article 7 of Law 906 of 2004.
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