According to the investigation, it was possible to determinate that these people, presumably committed pickpocketing and stole pedestrians of the place and they attacked and threatened those who tried to denounce them.
Due to the conclusive evidence, a judge imposed a prison sentence against four men allegedly responsible for extorting merchants from the new market in Riohacha (La Guajira).
They are Yeiner Oscar González Pérez, Mauricio Hernández Rivera, Ernesto Raúl Escalona Bermúdez and José Camilo Pimenta Loaiza, who, apparently, would be part of the organized criminal group known as ‘Los Cantineros’.
According to the investigation, it was possible to determinate that these people, presumably committed pickpocketing and stole pedestrians of the place and they attacked and threatened those who tried to denounce them.
Likewise, it was established that this organization asked for 100,000 and 150,000 COP. Money that was collected at the end of each month
For these facts, the Prosecutor’s Office charged them with aggravated conspiracy to commit extortion and aggravated extortion, charges that were not accepted.
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.