• Seven of the alleged members of the organization were prosecuted, and another seven people were arrested for extradition purposes.
  • Among those involved are seven members of the Navy, who allegedly provided privileged information to facilitate the departure of boats with narcotics along the coasts of the Caribbean and the Pacific.

The joint action of the Attorney General’s Office and the Navy, with the support of the US agency DEA, revealed a drug trafficking network known as ‘La Punta’, which would be involved in the departure of speedboats loaded with cocaine hydrochloride along the Colombian Pacific and Caribbean the coasts headed for Honduras and the United States.

Fourteen (14) alleged members of the criminal organization, seven of them wanted for extradition purposes by a district court in the United States, were arrested in proceedings carried out by Technical Investigative Corps (CTI) and the Navy in Cartagena (Bolívar), Tolú (Sucre), Tumaco (Nariño), Medellín (Antioquia), Santa Marta (Magdalena), Barranquilla (Atlántico) and San Andrés.

A prosecutor appointed to the so-called Estructura de Apoyo (EDA) belonging to the branch office in Santander (Seccional Santander) brought seven of the detainees to justice. They were charged, according to their possible participation in the incident, with criminal conspiracy for drug trafficking purposes; trafficking, manufacturing or possession of narcotics, money laundering, bribery, bribery for giving or offering and criminal impersonation. Likewise, prison sentences will be requested, on the date set by the court in charge of the case.

The defendants are: Eduardo and Diego Alejandro Martínez Barón, and Andrés Felipe Romero Yaima, who would be in charge of obtaining and transporting the illicit shipments to coastal areas, and paying officials to facilitate the removal of the shipments; the frigate lieutenant Julián David Mosquera Dussan and Luis Eduardo Cabrera Correa, and the non-commissioned officers Aurelio Aguilar Pineda and Santiago Vásquez Calvache.

The evidence indicates that the officers allegedly took advantage of their positions in the Navy to provide the drug trafficking network with privileged information about operations and weather conditions on the high seas, in exchange for bribes, so that the boats loaded with narcotics could sail and reach their destination without being detected.

During the investigation it was established that the money received by ‘La Punta’ from international contacts for the shipment of tons of cocaine was apparently invested in a company engaged in the purchase and sale of gold located in Bogotá, to give them an appearance of legality and evade financial filters.

The people arrested with extradition purposes are Jairo Alfonso Trejos, Jimmy Díaz Varilla, alias Gallero; Reynaldo Antonio Cardona Soto; members of the Navy, Jorge Antonio Polo Sousa, Gregory Josué Urueta and Daniel Enrique Fuentes Peluffo; and the former member of the Navy, Juan Manuel Pérez Usma.

These people remain at the Office of the Attorney General’s disposal. The Directorate of International Affairs will coordinate the necessary communications so that the formalization of the extradition requests can be carried out.

This information is published 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.