The victim’s corpse was dismembered, wrapped in plastic bags and threw into a river. Among the people that were sentenced is a member of the National Police.
In response to an appeal presented by the Attorney General’s Office, a judge sentenced five men who participated in the disappearance of a cell phone dealer to 27 years in prison due to facts that took place in Acevedo (Huila), on January 21, 2019.
This decision revoked a first instance ruling that had acquitted those people involved, and found them responsible for the crimes of aggravated forced disappearance and conspiracy. Additionally, their immediate arrest was ordered so that they could serve their sentence in prison.
Those sentenced are: brothers Henry and Fredy Espinosa Guevara, John Jairo Plaza Facundo, Henry Soto Majé and officer Henry Mejía Orozco.
The evidence obtained by a prosecutor from the Special Directorate against Human Rights Violations indicates that these people were part of a network involved in the sale of cocaine chlorhydrate in Cauca and Caquetá.
On January 20, 2019, they met at a billiard hall and planned the violent act against the merchant. The next day, one of the members of the organization offered transportation service to the victim to take him to Neiva (Huila), where he planned to request the issuance of the passport.
The man accepted the offer, but on the way, he was intercepted by the others involved in the criminal action, who dismembered him and his body parts were packed in black bags and thrown into the Magdalena river.
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.