The Attorney General´s Office charged before a judge six alleged members of the criminal gang Los Furiosos, allegedly involved in trafficking illegal substances in the municipalities of San Pablo, Cantagallo (Bolívar) and Puerto Wilches (Santander).
The people allegedly involved are Adriano Palacio Palacio, Ferney Aguilar Uribe, Edwin Carranza Siolo, Clemente Guerrero Vesga, Mauricio Buitrago Martínez, and Lacides Campo Palma who were charged by the Office of the Attorney General with conspiracy to commit a crime for the purpose of trafficking and possessing drugs.
According to the investigation, this drug trafficking network traded illicit substances in small quantities in the south area of Bolívar and Santander, where they also allegedly manufactured hallucinogens.
Some members of the Attorney General’s Office and the National Police participated in the operation carried out on June 18 in which members of the gang were arrested.
In these procedures, material to process alkaloids and two cell phones were seized
According to the judge´s decision, Palacio, Aguilar and Carranza were sent to prison. Guerrero Vesga, Buitrago Martínez and Campo Palma will remain under house arrest.
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.