The Office of the Attorney General obtained a prison sentence against Oswaldo Ibáñez Herrera, alias El Flaco, allegedly responsible for illegal possession of weapons or explosives for the exclusive use of the Military Forces.
The defendant was arrested in flagrante delicto by National Army troops in Puerto Bélgica, a rural area of the Municipality of Cáceres (Antioquia), when he was in possession of a grenade, which he allegedly used to threaten the merchants in the area and force them to close their shops
According to the investigation carried out by a specialized prosecutor from the Sectional office in Antioquia, alias El Flaco would be the urban ringleader of the GAO Clan del Golfo in the aforementioned area and would be pressuring some residents to go out and block the roads during the mining strike that took place in the region.
The Prosecutor’s Office is also investigating whether Ibáñez Herrera participated in the kidnapping of two young people from the area, who, apparently, were forcibly incorporated into the aforementioned criminal organization.
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 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.