{"id":38776,"date":"2020-05-22T11:14:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T16:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/?p=38776"},"modified":"2020-05-26T16:45:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T21:45:27","slug":"ringleader-of-a-criminal-structure-that-commits-crimes-in-the-so-called-comuna-trece-in-medellin-was-sentenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/2020\/05\/22\/ringleader-of-a-criminal-structure-that-commits-crimes-in-the-so-called-comuna-trece-in-medellin-was-sentenced\/","title":{"rendered":"Ringleader of a criminal structure that commits crimes in the so-called Comuna Trece in Medell\u00edn was sentenced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Given the force of the evidence presented by the Office of the Attorney General, Jorge Andr\u00e9s Mej\u00eda Usma, alias\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"><i>Mono<\/i><\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0or\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"><i>el Tigre<\/i><\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">, accepted a plea bargain with the accusing body and was sentenced to 19 years and 4 months in prison for the crimes of aggravated criminal conspiracy (as chief), 2 aggravated murders, and 2 charges of illegal possession of firearms for self defense.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Thanks to an investigation carried out by a prosecutor of the Special Directorate against Criminal Organizations, it was possible to determine the existence of the criminal gang called\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"><i>La Sexta<\/i><\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0or\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"><i>Betania<\/i><\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">, that committed crimes in the so-called\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"><i>Comuna Trece<\/i><\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0in Medell\u00edn which was led by alias Juancito.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Once Juan Manuel Piedrahita Giraldo, alias Juancito, was arrested on May 1, 2018, Jorge Andr\u00e9s Mej\u00eda Usma, who was part of the criminal structure since June 2017, took control of the group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Alias Mono accepted his participation in several murders that were committed in the so-called\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"><i>Comuna Trece<\/i><\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0in Medell\u00edn, among them, the murder of Pedro Tavima Tavera, alias Negrito, that took place on November 13, 2017, when was taken with tricks to a sector naked\u00a0<i>la Arenera<\/i>\u00a0and there he was shot.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given the force of the evidence presented by the Office of the Attorney General, Jorge Andr\u00e9s Mej\u00eda Usma, alias\u00a0Mono\u00a0or\u00a0el Tigre, accepted a plea bargain with the accusing body and was sentenced to 19 years and 4 months in prison for the crimes of aggravated criminal conspiracy (as chief), 2 aggravated murders, and 2 charges of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"category-organized-crime"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38776"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38777,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38776\/revisions\/38777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}