Marceliano José Batista Castro, alias Divino, was sentenced to five years and three months in prison. The conclusive evidence provided by the Prosecutor’s Office made the defendant to come to an agreement with the Office of the Attorney General and plead guilty to aggravated conspiracy to commit a crime.
The facts occurred between October 2015 and the end of 2019, a period in which the convicted man sold narcotics in small quantities in various sectors of Cartagena such as Piñango street, the Amador neighborhood and the surroundings of Cerro de la Popa.
For these facts, the National Police arrested Batista Castro on July 11, 2021, in Libano neighborhood in Cartagena.
This court decision is final.
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 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.