Public safety

At the request of a prosecutor assigned to the Sectional Directorate of Bogotá, the 18th Municipal Criminal Court (magistrate judge) issued a detention order with imprisonment against Leidy Johanna Díaz Díaz for simple kidnapping (aggravated). Facts took place on February...

Apparently, the former guerrilla man used three telephone numbers to demand millionaire amounts of money to release the victim. Thanks to interviews, photographic recognition, link analysis, technical examinations and other judicial police activities, the Office of the Attorney General, through...

The evidence gathered by the Office of the Attorney General allowed to establish that Joseph Puseit Jones held prisoners and tortured two people who allegedly lost some blocks of cocaine while transporting them at sea. Apparently, a criminal organization would...

The First Criminal Court of the Circuit (judge hearing the case)  in Pereira (Risaralda) sentenced seven members of the criminal gang named Baco which process and commercialize adulterated liquor in the Departments of Antioquia, Caldas, Risaralda and Valle del...

Luis Enrique Bernaza Cortes and Édison Moreno Sánchez were prosecuted for their alleged criminal liability in manufacturing, trafficking and possessing firearms, ammunition for restricted use or for private use of the armed forces, or explosives. Both defendants were arrested in...

Jaumeth Albeiro Flórez, aka El Chori, was sentenced to 39 years in prison for aggravated murder and illegal possession of firearms since he was found guilty for his participation in the crime committed against journalist Flor Alba Núñez Vargas,...

For the crimes of torture, aggravated kidnapping with extortion, manufacturing, trafficking and possessing firearms for restricted use and criminal conspiracy, the Second Criminal Court of the Specialized Circuit of Santa Marta approved the request made by the Office of...

At the request of the Office of the Attorney General, a judge (guarantee judge) issued a detention order against Wilson Pacheco Collantes, an alleged member of the ELN guerrilla Camilo Torres front for his alleged responsibility in the crimes...

At the request of the Sectional Prosecutor´s Office of the Immediate Reaction Unit (URI)*, the 36-year-old Fernando Bolaños was sentenced to a term of imprisonment. The defendant is accused of being the alleged responsible for the death of his 44...

The Office of the Attorney General and the National Police arrested seven people who would be part of a criminal gang engaged in jewelry thefts which would be linked to the crime committed against the judicial officer. Four of...