The Attorney General’s Office prosecuted five alleged members of the criminal group ‘Los Mexicanos’, involved in the local drug trafficking in the municipality of Santa Rosa de Lima (Bolívar).
According to the investigation, the defendants apparently sold around 8,000 doses of marijuana and cocaine in different sectors near schools, while using some homes as small stores.
As a result of some home searches carried out by the National Police in the San Antonio, La Ceiba, Las Gaviotas, El Limonar, Paríso and Porvenir neighborhoods of this municipality, Yorley de Jesús Salas Pérez, alias ‘Gordito’; Orlando Josid Salas Martínez, alias ‘Arley’; Alejando Pedroza de Ávila, alias ‘Alex’; Amaury Galvín de Ávila, alias ‘Puerca’ and Joser Rafael Salas Mercado, alias ‘Titin’ were arrested.
The Prosecutor’s Office charged them with conspiracy and manufacturing, possession or trafficking of narcotics. Four of them pleaded guilty to the charges.
Four of the defendants will serve house arrest in another municipality by virtue of a court order, while Salas Mercado was released but remains linked to the investigation.
The Office of the Attorney General makes this information public for reasons of general interest.
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.