One of the defendants is a foreign citizen
At the request of the Attorney General’s Office, a judge ordered a prison sentence against Carlos Restrepo Pulido, Wilfredo López Moreno, and Venezuelan citizen Luis Gerardo Tovar Cañizalez, for being alleged dealers in the Trinidad neighborhood in Medellín.
In a search warrant conducted by the Technical Investigation Corps (Cuerpo Técnico de Investigación CTI), three suspects were arrested in a building with multiple entrances and with an armored door, apparently to try to prevent authorities from entering and evade legal proceedings.
During the operation, 734 grams of marijuana, two cell phones, $220,000 in cash, and accounting records relating to the alleged sale of hallucinogens were seized.
According to information obtained by the Anti-Narcotics and Special Tasks Group of CTI, the property was allegedly used for the storage and distribution of narcotics for sale. Furthermore, the house was allegedly used for meetings between members of a criminal organization operating in the area.
The defendants did not plead guilty to the charges brought by a prosecutor from the Immediate Reaction Unit (Unidad de Reacción Inmediata URI) such as manufacturing, trafficking, or possession of narcotics and illicit use of real state and personal property.
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.