At the request of a prosecutor appointed to the Immediate Reaction Unit (Unidad de Reacción Inmediata URI), a judge imposed a prison sentence on a couple allegedly involved in local drug trafficking in Cartagena.
The decision involved Jorge Luis Herrera Fajardo, alias Changa, and his wife, Daira Alejandra Oviedo Martínez, both 26. They were charged with drug trafficking, manufacturing, or possession of narcotics but they did not plead guilty.
Judicial police investigations established that the defendants allegedly sold marijuana, cocaine, and synthetic pills from their home located at Pablo Sexto II to residents of neighborhoods such as Daniel Lemaitre, La María, La Esperanza, Petare, and Santa Rita.
It is believed that they distributed from that location more than 10,000 doses of narcotics, earning approximately 50 million COP per month.
The defendants were arrested on August 14 during a search warrant conducted by the National Police at the defendants’ residence. During the operation, a cache was found containing 82 bags of marijuana for distribution, 49 synthetic pills, and a blender for drug processing.
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.