The Attorney General’s Office brought four men before a judge. They were allegedly involved in violent robberies of vehicles on roads in Norte de Santander.
The defendants were identified as Jeison Enrique Escorcia Ariza, Luis Alfonso Pedraza, Heraldo Africano Durán and Yorman Africano Soto, and a sectional prosecutor charged them with aggravated robbery.
Investigations revealed that the men apparently detained the driver of a truck between Pamplona and Chitagá (Norte de Santander) when he was traveling to Bucaramanga (Santander). The victim was allegedly intimidated with firearms and forced to get out of the cargo vehicle in which cocoa was transported.
The defendants were located and arrested in fragante in Los Patios (Norte de Santander). Cell phones and a vehicle were seized during the operation. The stolen items were also recovered.
Those involved were sent to the so-called Modelo prison in this city, but they did not accept their responsibility for the facts.
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.