Superior Court of Arauca, when resolving the appeal of the Prosecutor’s Office, reversed the acquittal given to Angelo Alberto C\u00e1ceres Macon, who was sentenced to 40 years in prison and a fine of ten million pesos, as a co-perpetrator of the kidnapping and later homicide of Terence Freitas, Ingrid Washinawatok, Larry Gay Lahe ‘Enae’, American indigenists.<\/p>\n
C\u00e1ceres Macon, known as \u201cEl Piloso\u201d in Farc ranks, was acquitted by the Special Circuit Criminal Court in Arauca city, in December 2008. Prosecutor\u2019s office accused him for aggravated multiple homicides, kidnapping for ransom, aggravated and aggravated theft, in February 2006.<\/p>\n
According to the appeal arguments from the Prosecutor\u2019s Office, the responsibility of the accused was proved. For its part, the second instance in his Providence pointed out that C\u00e1ceres Macon “took part in the kidnapping of the indigenists.”<\/p>\n
The victims were kidnapped by members of the 45 Farc front, on February 25, 1999, when they moved in a motor vehicle between Cubar\u00e1 (Boyac\u00e1) and Saravena (Arauca), where they would take a plane to Bogot\u00e1. In accordance with the investigation conducted by a Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Prosecutor, the kidnapped persons were moved several times from motor vehicles and one part of the process of the U.S. citizens\u2019 transportation was conducted by alias El Piloso.<\/p>\n
A week later, on March 5, in the area Los Pajaros (the birds), Venezuelan territory, were found the indigenists\u2019 bodies with firearms shooting. The hands of the victims were tied and their faces covered.<\/p>\n
For the same facts, Germ\u00e1n Brice\u00f1o Suarez, alias Grannobles and Gustavo Bocota Aguablanca, alias Tibis\u00fa, were condemned to 40 years in prison. The Superior Court of Arauca ordered the arrest of alias El Piloso.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Superior Court of Arauca, when resolving the appeal of the Prosecutor’s Office, reversed the acquittal given to Angelo Alberto C\u00e1ceres Macon, who was sentenced to 40 years in prison and a fine of ten million pesos, as a co-perpetrator of the kidnapping and later homicide of Terence Freitas, Ingrid Washinawatok, Larry Gay Lahe ‘Enae’, American […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21140,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21139\/revisions\/21140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}