At the request of the Attorney General’s Office, a judge imposed a prison sentence against José Félix Rivas Herrera, allegedly involved in the crime of local drug trafficking in San Andrés.
Facts took place on July 29, when the National Police carried out a search warrant in a house located at Morrislanding neighborhood, where Rivas Herrera was caught in flagrante with several bags of marijuana that, apparently, were going to be distributed in the archipelago.
During the operation, money which he apparently obtained from the sale of the drugs was also seized.
A prosecutor belonging to the Sectional Office in San Andrés charged him with manufacture, trafficking or drugs possession. He did not plead guilty to the charges.
The defendant was sent to Nueva Esperanza prison on the island.
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.