The Attorney General’s Office brought nine alleged members of the Los Urbanos criminal group before a judge in Tuluá (Valle del Cauca). They are accused of multiple crimes committed in La Balastrera area.
The people involved are Jesús Antony Díaz González, Frank Leonel Indriago Rojas, Angie Emperatriz Escobar Domínguez, Nicol Dayana Roncería, Yésica Coromoto Abreu Bermúdez, Andrés Alonso Arce Bandera, Leidy Johana Roncería, Johan Alberto Rojas Ospina and Kevin Andrés Mesa Perdomo
A prosecutor appointed to the branch office in Valle del Cauca (Seccional Valle del Cauca) charged the defendants for being allegedly responsible for the crimes of aggravated criminal conspiracy to commit a crime; forced disappearance; manufacturing, trafficking, and possession of firearms or ammunition; forced displacement; aggravated theft; manufacturing, trafficking, and possession of restricted-use weapons, ammunition for the exclusive use of the armed forces, or explosives; terrorism; use of minors in the commission of crimes; homicide; and attempted homicide.
The defendants are allegedly responsible for at least 11 criminal acts that occurred between September 2024 and the current year. One of the cases is related to the kidnapping of two people in the rural area of Bugalagrande, which occurred on February 5. The victims were apparently taken to the La Balastrera sector, where they were tortured and their corpses dismembered to disappear them.
Among the homicides attributed to this criminal network is that of a minor, as well as attacks with explosives, thefts, and petty drug dealing, among others.
The defendants were arrested by the National Police during 14 home searches operations carried out in La Inmaculada and Villacolombia neighborhoods and in La Balastrera neighborhood. The defendants must serve a prison sentence.
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.