Kevin José Cuero Gamboa, alias Chinga, an alleged member of the Los Shotas faction of ‘La Local’ criminal gang, was charged as an alleged co-perpetrator of the crimes of manufacturing, trafficking and possession of firearms for private use and restricted use by the Armed Forces or explosives.
Ninfa Rocío Lerma Martínez, the alleged leader´s wife , was charged with manufacturing, trafficking and possession of narcotics.
According to the investigation, a human source told the Prosecutor’s Office about the existence of two buildings located in the San Francisco neighborhood of this port, used by the criminal organization to store weapons and drugs.
Sijin officers of the National Police, and members of Gaula in Police, simultaneously carried out raid operations, finding the woman in one of the houses in possession of a bag of marijuana and Cuero Gamboa in the other house ammunition caliber 7.62 and 5.56 millimeters.
A judge in Buenaventura sent the couple to prison.
The defendants did not plead guilty to the charges.
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.