After approving the preliminary agreement between the Attorney General’s Office and the defendant’s defense, a judge sentenced José Gregorio Peñaranda Vega to 11 years with one month and 4 days in prison as responsible for the crime of manufacturing, trafficking and possession of weapons, ammunition for restricted use, for the exclusive use of the Armed Forces or explosives (aggravated).
The defendant was arrested in flagrante delicto on September 17, 2017 by National Police officers in Niña Ceci neighborhood in Cúcuta (Norte de Santander), in possession of a pistol-type firearm and five 9 mm caliber cartridges, without their respective documentation
Peñaranda Vega was ordered house arrest in 2017, measure that was revoked on May 18, 2018, and then he was transferred to La Modelo prison in this city where he will remain until he serves the sentence.
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.