The Office of the Attorney General charged 12 alleged members of the criminal gang Los del Norte before a supervisory judge, with aggravated criminal conspiracy to commit drug trafficking; trafficking, manufacture, or possession of drugs; use of minors for criminal purposes and trafficking, manufacture or possession of firearms or ammunition.

The alleged members must face drug trafficking charges.

In the hearings*, the judge ordered a prison sentence for 7 people and home detention for the other 5 defendants.

According to the investigation, this criminal structure was involved in the sale, commercialization, and dosage of drugs in Bucaramanga (Santander).

Members of the Technical Investigative Corps (CTI), with the support of the National Police carried out the arrests during home searches in several premises in the city of Santander on April 15th.

As a result of the operations, 938 grams of cocaine, 210 doses of marijuana and 235 grams of coca base and two firearms were seized.

The detainees who were sent to prison are Iván Darío Rodríguez Melo, Emmanuel Urrieta Jiménez, Joffre Emanuel Parra Maestre, Marlen Morales Rojas, Brayan Andrés Navas Rojas and Carlos Alfonso Gonzáles Jaimes.

Sneider Lizarazo Guerrero, Claudia Cecilia Peñuela, Deysi Paola Quintana, Adrian Mauricio Vega Cely, Michael Arley Hernández and Camilo Andrés Bautista, will serve home inprisonment.

The Office of the Attorney General makes this information public for reasons of general interest.

When we speak, results follow.

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. 

*Several  kinds  of  hearings  held  in  one  hearing  (known as audiencias concentradas in Spanish)