Thanks to the evidence gathered by the Office of the Attorney General, five individuals who were allegedly found in possession of firearms and explosives in three areas of Buenaventura (Valle del Cauca) were prosecuted.
The people involved are José Omar Domínguez Jaramillo, Jesús David Martínez Valdez, Harold Arturo Zúñiga García, Joan Valencia Solarte and Maicol Stiven Pérez Espinosa who were formally charged with manufacturing, trafficking, and possession of firearms, ammunition for restricted use, items exclusively for the armed forces, or explosives.
These individuals were arrested in flagrante delicto during operations conducted by the National Police and Navy in neighborhoods such as Transformación, Los Cristales, and Vista Hermosa.
During the operations, authorities seized three firearms, including a Mini Uzi submachine gun, ammunition, a fragmentation grenade, one bar of Pentolite explosive, one bar of Indugel explosive, ten mobile phones, and a digital scale.
During the preliminary hearings, the five defendants did not plead guilty to the charges. Consequently, a judge ordered that they must serve a sentence in prison.
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.