The Attorney General’s Office prosecuted Maricel Ocampo Vargas for her alleged responsibility for trafficking, manufacturing, or possession of drugs. The defendant did not plead guilty to the charges.
The incident under investigation occurred on September 15th on a public street in the Caracolí neighborhood of Cartago (Valle del Cauca) when National Police officers arrested her in flagrante, in posession of 23 packages of marijuana. The net weight of the substance was 11.5 kilos.
The judge ordered the defendant to serve a prison sentence at the request of a prosecutor appointed to the branch office in Valle del Cauca (Seccional Valle del Cauca)
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.