The alleged leaders of the organizations known as ‘La Empresa’ and ‘La Local’ were arrested and prosecuted.
In Buga (Valle del Cauca), the Attorney General, Francisco Barbosa Delgado, presented important results obtained thanks to the implementation of an investigative strategy to impact the structures involved in drug trafficking and other criminal behaviors in Buenaventura.
“In the last few days we have carried out 41 raids, 159 people have been arrested, 18 murder cases have been clarified and we were able to give a hard blow to those two structures‘ Los Bustamante ’and‘ La Local ’,” said the Attorney General.
Hard blow to ‘Los Bustamante’
At the request of a prosecutor appointed to the Special Directorate against Drug Trafficking, a judge issued a prison sentence against seven people allegedly in charge of coordinating the illicit activities of the so-called ‘Clan de los Bustamante’ or ‘La Empresa’.
These people were charged with trafficking, manufacture, or aggravated possession of drugs; and conspiracy to commit an aggravated crime.
Among the defendants is Alejandro Parra Bustamante, alias Puma or La A, alleged head of this organization in charge of controlling exit routes of cocaine along the coast of Buenaventura (Valle del Cauca). This person allegedly reached an illegal agreement with ‘Clan del Golfo’ in order to allowing him to carry out extortions, drug trafficking and other criminal activities in the city.
The other people that were prosecuted are: Geovanny Parra Bustamante, alias Quicharro, alias Puma´s brother and alleged coordinator of contacts in Cali (Valle del Cauca); Jorge Eliecer Flórez Álvarez, alias Eliecer, alleged investor; Jorge Eduardo Perea Gómez, alias Rolo; Jorge Antonio Díaz Correa, alias Batata; José Lino Tenorio Rojas, alias Samper; and John Freddy Serna Martínez, alias Jhon.
In two years of investigations, the Office of the Attorney General and the National Police established that this drug trafficking organization sent the cocaine hydrochloride in containers that departed from the main ports of the country.
Likewise, important arrests and prosecutions were carried out such as: brothers Edgar Bustamante, alias Yuca; and Ever Bustamante, alias Tatauro, alleged creators of the criminal organization.
Ringleader of ‘La Local’ was sent to prison
The Office of the Attorney General charged Eloy Alberto Candelo Cuero, alias Pepo, one of the alleged leaders of the gang ‘La Local’, with criminal conspiracy, aggravated extortion, aggravated robbery, simple kidnapping; aggravated manufacture, trafficking and possession of weapons, accessories, parts and ammunition.
According to the investigations, this person, apparently, committed a crime 15 years ago in Buenaventura and, currently, he is allegedly in charge of promoting extortions and intimidating merchants and residents of neighborhoods Juan XXIII, Alberto Lleras, Pueblo Nuevo and Rockefeller.
Alias Pepo was arrested in a search warrant proceeding carried out by Gaula-National Police in a building located in Las Palmas sector. During the procedure, a 9 mm pistol, a magazine and 9 cartridges were seized.
“It is a commitment for Office of the Attorney General, from the moment we transferred the Sectional Office in Valle del Cauca to Buenaventura, to have as a priority the work in the port and thus reducing the existing crime,” concluded the Attorney General.
The Office of the Attorney General makes this information public for reasons of general interest.
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.