Alias Jorgito gave children and adolescents money or drugs, in exchange for the illegal activity they carried out.
Due to the evidence obtained by the Attorney General’s Office, Jorge Hernando Londoño Zapata, alias Jorgito, admitted through a preliminary agreement to having belonged to the so-called ‘Clan del Golfo’ and coordinated the use of minors to petty drug dealing in Vegachí (Antioquia).
A criminal court of the specialized circuit of Antioquia approved the judicial agreement and sentenced the defendant to five years and three months in prison, and ordered him to pay a fine of 2,700 current monthly minimum wages for being responsible for using minors to commit crimes, supplying narcotics to minors and aggravated conspiracy to commit crimes. The decision determined that the sentence must be served in a prison.
The investigation led by the Dirección de Apoyo a la Investigación y Análisis contra la Criminalidad Organizadada (Directorate of Support for Investigation and Analysis against Organized Crime) reports that, between 2022 and 2023, alias Jorgito contacted children and adolescents, and convinced them to store, transport and sell illicit substances.
The minors linked to the illegal activity were induced to consume narcotics therefore, they occasionally received doses of cocaine or marijuana, and sums of money that varied according to the quantities they distributed.
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.