Three of the defendants were sent to prisons, the other one must serve house arrest.

In isolated cases, prosecutors appointed to the branch office in Risaralda prosecuted four alleged people involved in illegal possession of firearms in the municipalities of Pereira and Dosquebradas.

The defendants were charged with manufacturing, trafficking, possession of firearms, parts or ammunition. They did not plead guilty to the charges.

The first case took place on February 19 when Kevin Andrés Díaz Carvajal was riding in the rear seat of a motorcycle near the lineal park of the San Vicente Bajo neighborhood of Pereira. Apparently, when the National Police was going to carry out an inspection, the driver and passenger abandoned the vehicle and fled. Díaz Carvajal was arrested, and a 38-caliber revolver with ammunition was found in his possession.

That same day, during a home search operation carried out in La Soledad neighborhood in Dosquebradas, the authorities seized two 38-caliber revolvers and their ammunition. José Ángel Tasama Hernández was arrested during the operations.

On February 7, Pedro Rauzán Vallejo Osorio was inspected by the National Police when he was traveling through the Nuevo Plan neighborhood in Villasantana ‘comuna’. The defendant, was found in possession of a 38-caliber revolver with its ammunition. On January 31, Daniel José Ospina Chalarca was found in possession of a 9 mm pistol with its respective magazine and ammunition in a shopping mall. 

The Office of the Attorney General makes this information public for reasons of general interest.

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.