At the request of the Attorney General’s Office, a judge imposed a prison sentence on 15 alleged members of the criminal organization known as La Inmaculada or El Hoyo, involved in extortions in La Estrella (Antioquia). In the same decision, a woman must serve house arrest for being a single mother.
The decision involved the alleged ringleader Jhon Jairo García Segura, alias Cuca; and the alleged coordinators Tatiana Vergara González; Jesús Santiago Estrada Torres, alias La Chinga; Anderson Delgado Osorio, alias Chencho; Edgar Leandro Castañeda, alias Junior or Veneno; and Sebastián Blandón Holguín, alias Cianuro.
In 21 home searches carried out by Gaula of the National Police in La Estrella (Antioquia) and Aguadas (Caldas), 12 alleged members who were committing crimes since 2010 in sectors such as La Inmaculada 1 and 2, Campo Alegre, El Hoyo, La Carrilera, La Bermejala, Montañitas and the rural areas of La Tablaza and Pueblo Viejo were arrested. For his part, alias ‘Cuca’ was served in prison and three men turned themselves into the Office of the Attorney General.
A prosecutor charged them, according to their individual responsibilities, with aggravated criminal conspiracy, attempted extortion, forced displacement, attempted homicide, simple kidnapping and qualified and aggravated theft. The defendants did not plead guilty.
Among the cases under investigation, is the attack against a Mexican citizen, which took place on December 2, 2023, in a house in Pueblo Viejo de La Estrella where several people arrived and apparently beat him.
Days later, they returned to the property and allegedly attacked him with a blunt object on several occasions, causing injuries that put his life at risk.
Another incident took place on July 4, 2023 in Tierra Amarilla de la Estrella (Antioquia), when a couple riding a motorcycle was approached by several men and women, who apparently asked them for 5 million COP.
They were held against their will for 2 hours and threatened with sharp weapons. When they were released, they took the motorcycle and a cell phone.
The Office of the Attorney General revealed that the aforementioned criminal structure had monthly incomes of 120 million COP, derived from the sale of narcotics and extortion.
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.