The Attorney General’s Office charged six alleged members of the Euclides Arley Pérez Góez substructure which commited crimes for the so-called ‘Clan del Golfo’ in Depression Momposina region, south of Bolívar.
The Office of the Attorney General charged the defendants, according to their individual responsibilities, with conspiracy to commit crimes for extortion purposes, homicide; trafficking, manufacture or possession of narcotics and; manufacture, trafficking, possession of firearms. They did not plead guilty to the charges.
It is believed that the suspects were engaged in extorting cattle ranchers, miners, farmers and merchants from the municipalities of Barranco de Loba, Hatillo de Loba, San Martín de Loba, Mompox, Margarita and San Fernando (Bolívar) and El Banco (Magdalena).
The criminal organization apparently intended to gain control of drug trafficking in these towns in order to receive the resources from this activity throughout the region.
Eduardo Aguilar Hernández, alias Junior; Jaider Vargas Martínez and Yossi Alberto Zabaleta Alvarado, alias Tayson, must serve their sentence in the so-called Camilo Torres prison in Magangué (Bolívar).
On the other hand, Katerine Turizo Lobo, alias Fabiola; Dubán Villarreal Rangel, alias Barriga Moncholo; and Fredi Antonio García Barba, must serve house arrest.
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.