At the request of the Attorney General’s Office, a judge issued a prison sentence for Edgar Alfonso Ortiz Arias, Claudia Patricia Pérez Rodríguez and Jhonatan Alexander Gutiérrez Salazar; alleged perpetrators of violent robberies committed against several citizens in Villavicencio (Meta). For these same facts, three adolescents were sent to a Juvenile detention center.
The adults were arrested by the National Police during two home searches carried out in Villavicencio. The Office of the Attorney General charged them with qualified and aggravated theft, and use of minors in the commission of crimes. They did not plead guilty to the charges.
The investigation, coordinated by a prosecutor from the Estructura de Apoyo EDA in Villavicencio, allowed the identification and location of three adults, and location of the three minors. These people were allegedly engaged in illegal activities between December 2023 and June 2024.
These facts took place in the Villa Humberto, Comuneros and Alborada neighborhoods where the alleged members of the criminal group ‘Los Betos’, using firearms and sharp objects, carried out 18 robberies from merchants, pedestrians and residents of the sector.
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.