Ammunition, grenade launchers, short and long-range firearms and garment for the exclusive use of the National Police were seized from the defendants.
At the request of a prosecutor appointed to the Directorate specialized in the fight against Criminal Organizations (Dirección Especializada contra Organizaciones Criminales (DECOC)), a judge imposed a prison sentence on three alleged members of FARC’s dissidents.
The defendants, identified as Carlos Alfredo García Ramírez, Adalber Céspedes Castillo and Cristian Fabián Yancuma Lugo, were arrested on October 23 with short and long-range weapons, ammunition, as well as clothing similar to that used by the public force.
The Office of the Attorney General charged them, according to their individual responsibilities, with conspiracy to commit a crime; manufacture, trafficking, possession of firearms, accessories, parts or ammunition for personal use, for the exclusive use of the Armed Forces and illegal use of uniforms and insignia. They did not plead guilty to charges.
In a home search conducted by the Police, in coordination with the National Army in the rural area of the Banderas, in Cartagena del Chairá (Caquetá), pamphlets alluding to the Rodrigo Cadete front of Jorge Briceño Suárez Block of FARC dissidents were seized.
In the property three rifles, a grenade launcher, magazines, more than 560 cartridges of different calibers and several uniforms similar to those used by the National Police, cell phones, agendas and documents with information on multiple extortion payments to commercial establishments and businessmen of the public and private sector of Caquetá were found.
The defendants were responsible for acts of intimidation against the civilian population due to armed confrontations with the so-called ‘Segunda Marquetalia’ in which they sought to maintain territorial control of drug trafficking routes, as well as their criminal income.
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.