Given the evidence obtained by the Attorney General’s Office, Mario Andrés Castillo Montañez, alias Tatuajes, accepted through a preliminary agreement his responsibility in at least four homicides that occurred in Cúcuta and Los Patios (Norte de Santander).
A judge in Cúcuta approved the agreement and sentenced him to 25 years in prison for his responsibility in the crimes of homicide, attempted homicide, qualified theft and; manufacture, trafficking, possession of firearms, parts, accessories or ammunition, the first three crimes with aggravating circumstances.
The facts took place on May 16, June 4, and December 17 and 26, 2020 in Cúcuta and Los Patios (Norte de Santander) in which four people died, and two women were injured, including a 3-year-old minor.
Likewise, he participated in a robbery in which two engineers were relieved of a truck valued at 120 million COP and valuable items. The events took place on December 22, 2020, in the rural area of Carmen de Tonchalá, in Cúcuta (Norte de Santander).
Alias Tatuajes, was arrested in January 2021 during a search warrant in Belén neighborhood in Cúcuta that was carried out by the Technical Investigation Corps (CTI), Police and Army.
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.