The investigations carried out by the Attorney General’s Office allowed the prosecution of eight alleged members of the criminal network, ‘5 Estrellas’. Those people under investigation would be involved in local drug trafficking in Armenia (Quindío).

They are Jair Antonio Aguirre Gallego, alias Toño; Elisángela Pacheco Fuentes, alias La Mona; Mauricio Cortés Hernández, alias Barbas; Aura Tatiana Cano Olaya, alias Tati; Claudia Patricia Cortés Maldonado, alias Paty; Omar Macías, alias El Santandereano; Gildardo Giraldo Ramírez, alias El Abuelo and Nikol Alejandra Guzmán Cortés, alias Niky.

A prosecutor appointed to the Sectional Office in Quindío charged them with aggravated conspiracy to commit crimes, trafficking, manufacture or possession of narcotics; and illegal destination of personal property or real estate. The defendants did not plead guilty to the charges.

According to the investigation, the defendants were involved in petty drug dealing since September 2023 in the urban perimeter of the main city of Quindío, especially in the central sector where they would be using different premises for sales.  

The illegal organization apparently used commercial premises for the sale of second-hand clothing as a facade to disguise its criminal activity.

The judge imposed a prison sentence on Aguirre Gallego, Pacheco Fuentes, Cortés Hernández, Cano Olaya, Cortés Maldonado and Omar Macías. Meanwhile, Giraldo Ramírez and house arrest for Guzmán Cortés.

The Office of the Attorney General makes this information public for reasons of general interest.

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.