The evidence, presented by the Attorney General’s Office, allowed a judge to impose a prison sentence against Jhonier Matoso Álvarez, alias Matoso, allegedly responsible for the crime of qualified and aggravated robbery.
The facts took place on January 1st, on a public road in La Paz neighborhood on the island of San Andrés, where the defendant, apparently, intimidated a woman with a firearm to steal the jewelry she was wearing and a cell phone, valued at more than 4 million COP.
In compliance with a court order, ‘Matoso’ was arrested in the so-called Morris Landing neighborhood by the National Police.
This person did not plead guilty to the charges brought by a prosecutor appointed to the branch office in San Andrés (Seccional San Andrés).
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.