Alleged members of a criminal group involved in trafficking marijuana and cocaine in Tolima were prosecuted

The Attorney General’s Office charged Javier Andrés Tapiero Dagua and Ingris Johana Zuñiga Tascón with aggravated conspiracy to commit crimes; trafficking, manufacturing or possession of narcotics; and illicit destination of real estate and personal property.

According to the investigation, Tapiero Dagua would be one of the leaders of the so-called Los del Sur criminal group, and would be in charge of purchasing cocaine and growing marijuana to send it from Toribío (Cauca) to Gaitania, in Planadas (Tolima). There, it was stored in a home belonging to another of the alleged members of the organization for its sale.

For her part, Zuñiga Tascón allegedly played the role of drug dealer in said municipality. This couple would be at the service of the criminal group which committed crimes in the area between 2022 and 2023.

The drugs were sent in arrobas on the back of a mule along path and roads with difficult access to the aforementioned sector, in which they were sold in Ataco, Chaparral and their rural areas; Ibagué, Venadillo (Tolima), Girardot and Bogotá (Cundinamarca).

It was revealed that this group had a weekly illicit income of about 36 million COP.

They were prosecuted after a judge declared them as absent defendants. The court issued an immediate arrest warrant, and also requested their inclusion in an Interpol blue notice.

‘Los del Sur’ had a previous hard blow with the prosecution of five of its alleged members in August 2023 by a prosecutor belonging to the Support Structure Group (Estructura de Apoyo EDA) of the branch Office in Tolima.

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.