Four people, allegedly involved in the kidnapping of a mechanic in Ibagué (Tolima) on November 28, were sent to prison. A prosecutor appointed to the unit named Unidad de Flagrancias of the Sectional Office in Tolima charged them before a judge with simple kidnapping and aggravated illegal manufacture, trafficking and possession of firearms. The defendants did not plead guilty to the charges.
The people arrested are Julián Andrés Díaz Medina, Omar Alexis Bonilla Hernández, Michael Antony Cruz Cuellar, and Sanuvy Peñalosa Lozano.
According to the investigation, the 55-year-old victim was allegedly hired to fix a vehicle at the so-called Cantabria neighborhood of Ibagué. Upon arriving in a private car, he was approached by four people who forced him to get out of the vehicle and get into a pickup truck, where he was beaten and handcuffed while threatening him with a firearm and asking him about a vehicle that had supposedly been stolen from them.
The alleged kidnappers took him to the road that connects Ibagué to Rovira, where they were intercepted by the police in Carmen de Bulira. The victim shouted that they were going to kill him, and this allowed the authorities to stop the vehicle and rescue him, and to arrest the four men in flagrante delicto.
In addition, a revolver, ammunition, 10 cell phones, some doses of marijuana and the pickup truck were seized.
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.