Alias ​​Edwin will be sent to prison for his alleged participation in an attack that caused the death of a soldier and wounded three people in El Plateado (Cauca)

This alleged leader of a structure of FARC dissidents would be involved in different armed actions against the public force.

The Attorney General’s Office presented evidence that proves the alleged participation of Yedinson Faber Ascue, alias Edwin, alleged leader of the so-called Carlos Patiño structure of FARC dissidents, in an attack that caused the death of a soldier and wounded three people on April 17 of this year, in El Plateado, in Argelia (Cauca).

This man and other members of the illegal armed group used rifles and machine guns on several occasions, and activated explosives when units of the so-called Comando Específico del Cauca, which belongs to the Third Division of the National Army, were passing by. As a result of the violent attack, the professional soldier Diego Armando Zambrano González died.

For these facts, a prosecutor appointed to the Specialized Directorate against Criminal Organizations charged alias Edwin with aggravated homicide, attempted aggravated homicide, aggravated conspiracy to commit crimes; and aggravated manufacture, trafficking and possession of weapons, ammunition for the exclusive use of the Armed Forces or explosives.

The defendant did not plead guilty to the charges and must serve a prison sentence.

Yedinson Faber Ascue was arrested in a joint operation with Dijin of the National Police, in a building in Cali (Valle de Cauca). In the proceeding, three cell phones, cocaine and other items used to deliver the drug were seized.

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.