At the request of a prosecutor from the Sectional Office in Santander, a judge issued a prison sentence against Henry Eduardo Tarazona Rojas, alias Patula, alleged member of Los de La Paz, a criminal gang involved in the theft of motorcycles in Bucaramanga and its Metropolitan Area.
The Office of the Attorney General charged the defendant with conspiracy to commit crimes for extortion purposes and qualified and aggravated theft. During the investigation it was established that, apparently, this gang committed crimes between March 2023 and February 2024 obtaining illegal incomes exceeding 183 million COP.
The modus operandi of this criminal structure was to steal motorcycles by means of theft, and then extorting the owners. In those cases where the illegal economic demands were not paid, they proceeded to alter the security and identification systems to sell them to third parties in good faith.
Tarazona Rojas was arrested by Police by virtue of a court order in the municipality of Floridablanca.
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.