At the request of a prosecutor appointed to the Sectional Office in Bolívar (Seccional Bolivar), a judge issued a prison sentence against Cristian David Bustos Morales, allegedly responsible for the crime of extortion.
The facts under investigation are related to extortions made by phone to a 17-year-old student in Cartagena. On August 31, the victim was asked to pay 300,000 pesos in exchange for not murdering him and his family.
Due to comission of the offense, officcers of Gaula – National Police conducted an operation in which they arrested Bustos Morales on September 2nd in Los Calamares neighborhood in Cartagena when he was receiving the agreed-upon sum. During the operation, the money and three gold bracelets belonging to the teenager were seized.
The defendant, 18, did not plead guilty for the charges brought against him.
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.