The Technical Investigation Team (CTI) of the Office of the Attorney General and the Gaula \/ Colombian Police, captured six people, four in Bogot\u00e1 and two in Yacop\u00ed, Cundinamarca, who in November last year kidnapped Humberto Sarmiento Villate, a university student.<\/p>\n
The student of mechanical engineering in the Universidad Sergio Arboleda was kidnapped on November 9 through the intermediary of Cristian, a former employee of the company owned by Sarmiento Villate\u2019s father, who gained the victim\u2019s trust.<\/p>\n
According to the evidences collected by the Unit of Prosecutors\u2019 Offices against Kidnapping and Extortion, Cristian, together with one of his accomplices, picked Humberto Sarmiento Villate up on two motorbikes and started journey from Bogota, via, Chia, Zipaquir\u00e1, Pacho, reaching rural area of Yacop\u00ed, where other members of the criminal organization waiting for them.<\/p>\n
On November 13, the kidnappers contacted the student’s family telling them that alias Andr\u00e9s, second in command of the front 26 FARC, was speaking and that her boss was Cristian from Los Llanos Orientales\/Meta and Vichada. During the communication they affirmed to have in their possession Humberto Sarmiento, they demanded the sum of Cop $5,000 billion to release him and through PIN messages they sent two photographs of the victim with his neck and hands chained.<\/p>\n
The investigation established that the Farc did not carry out the kidnapping, but it was an organized crime group, which planned and executed the kidnapping and subsequent transfer of the victim to a rural area of the municipality of Yacop\u00ed, Cundinamarca.<\/p>\n
The six captured, identified as Jos\u00e9 Obdulio Cruz Linares, M\u00f3nica Ocampo, Ferney Orozco Torres, Flaminio Morales Ramirez, Jairo Ferney Mart\u00ednez Pineda and Argelio Guarque Anzola, were charged by Prosecutor\u2019s office with counts for aggravated kidnapping for ransom, smuggling, manufacturing and illegal possession of firearms.<\/p>\n
During the legalization of the capture, the supervising judge declared illegal the detention of Guarque Anzola, decision which was appealed by the Prosecutor’s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Technical Investigation Team (CTI) of the Office of the Attorney General and the Gaula \/ Colombian Police, captured six people, four in Bogot\u00e1 and two in Yacop\u00ed, Cundinamarca, who in November last year kidnapped Humberto Sarmiento Villate, a university student. The student of mechanical engineering in the Universidad Sergio Arboleda was kidnapped on November […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31312"}],"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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31312"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31338,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31312\/revisions\/31338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}