According to the Office of the Attorney General, they were authorized by residual organized armed groups to sell narcotics locally. The profits were allegedly handed over to them.
At the request of the Office of the Attorney General, a judge imposed a prison sentence against six alleged members of a criminal group called Los Recolectores, operating in Planadas (Tolima) for selling narcotics in the south area of that department.
The preliminary investigations carried out by the judicial police showed that these people, identified as Deisy Repiso Yate, Luis Fernando Trujillo Barrios, Jhon Gilber González Repizo, Alfredo Guarnizo Acevedo, Edimer Roa Vargas and Manuel Alberto Alarcón Martínez had agreed to sell narcotics in that area under the supervision and authorization of dissidents.
The resources obtained from the sale of doses of marijuana, bazuco and cocaine (petty drug dealing) would be delivered to the illegal group. The profits were approximately 5 million COP per day.
As a result of search warrants carried out by the Police, Army and with the support of the Air Force, four firearms, three traumatic weapons, ammunition of different calibers, thousand doses of bazuco, 50 of marijuana, 50 of cocaine and 19 million COP in cash were seized.
A prosecutor belonging to the Sectional Office in Tolima charged them with aggravated conspiracy to commit crimes; trafficking, manufacture or drug possession; manufacture, trafficking or possession of firearms, illegal use of personal property and real estate and use of minors to commit crimes. They did not plead guilty to the charges.
They will remain in prison while the investigation is carried out.
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.