The 19 individuals charged were deprived of their liberty in prison.

The Attorney General’s Office prosecuted 19 alleged members of the criminal organization known as Las Letras, who would be allegedly responsible for local drug trafficking in Montenegro (Quindío).

These individuals were charged, according to their individual responsibility, with aggravated conspiracy to commit a crime; trafficking, manufacturing, or possession of narcotics; manufacturing, trafficking, possession, or possession of firearms, accessories, parts, or ammunition; use of minors in the commission of crimes; and illegal use of real state.

According to the investigation led by a prosecutor appointed to the branch office in Quindío, José Albeiro Hoyos González, alias Nene, and Diego Fernando Molina, alias Pinino, alleged leaders of the organization, led the illicit activities committed by the criminal network from the prisons where they remained for other crimes.

The evidence indicates that they participated in at least 42 facts that took place between 2023 and 2025. These individuals allegedly played different roles when preparing doses, transportating, and distributing cocaine and its derivatives, and marijuana.

The drugs were sold in Marín, Alaska, Santa Helena, Pablo Sexto, and Ciudad Alegría neighborhoods of the municipality, where, it is believed, they also used minors to carry out the different tasks.

At the request of the Attorney General’s Office, a judge imposed prison sentences on them. 

National Police officers carried out 20 home searches in the municipality. As a result, there were arrests and the seizure of marijuana, bazuco, cocaine, dosing bags, firearms, and ammunition of various calibers.

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.