Investigative work carried out by the Attorney General’s Office allowed the prosecution of 11 alleged members of the so-called Constantinos, a drug trafficking network, allegedly linked to local drug trafficking in Pereira (Risaralda).
The people involved are José Adrián Colorado, Elsy Johana Molina Pérez, Juan Carlos Ordoñez Aguilar, Estefanía Mahecha Guapacha, Jeni Alejandra Castro Valencia, María Camila Mahecha Guapacha, Diana Marcela Cerón Rojas, Jhon Fredy Quintero Hoyos, Andrés Felipe López Castro, Andrés Fabián Lotero López and Luisa Stefanía Ochoa.
These people were charged, according to their level of individual responsibility, with conspiracy to commit crimes and trafficking, manufacture or possession of narcotics. They did not plead guilty to the charges.
According to the investigation, since November 2023 this criminal group would be selling bazuco and dosis of marijuana in the area known as Los Puentes de la novena and in mobile sale points.
According to the investigation, the defendants allegedly fulfilled specific roles within the illegal structure such as ringleaders, coordinators of distribution at sales points, transporters and collectors of money that would be linked to illicit trade; in addition to people in charge of controlling and protecting the sale points. Also, there would be people in charge of storing the narcotics.
The people under investigation were arrested in home searches carried out by the National Police in comuna Villa Santana in Pereira and Dosquebradas (Risaralda).
A judge imposed a prison sentence for Lotero López. The others 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.