The Prosecutor’s Office in Tolima, through a branch office assigned to the Support Structure group (Estructura de Apoyo), charged a man who was arrested in flagrante delicto with several grams of narcotics in a property in Ambalema (Tolima) with trafficking, manufacturing, or possession of narcotics, and illicit use of personal property or real estate.
The defendant was Edison Alexánder Reyes Hernández, who was found by the National Police during a search warrant carried out in La Esperanza neighborhood of the aforementioned municipality in Tolima in which 243 doses of bazuco, 40 doses of marijuana, and 108 doses of cocaine base were discovered. A cell phone and cash apparently derived from the sale of hallucinogenic substances were also seized.
The narcotics were buried in the property’s yard and in other places, such as water and energy meters, to avoid being detected by authorities.
According to the evidence obtained by the Office of the Attorney General, Reyes Hernández, 29, was allegedly responsible for selling narcotics in that neighborhood through home deliveries and in fixed locations.
The defendant did not plead guilty to the charges and was sent to prison while the investigation moves forward.
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.