{"id":42401,"date":"2024-07-10T09:44:06","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T14:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/?p=42401"},"modified":"2024-07-10T14:22:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T19:22:27","slug":"the-prosecutors-office-prosecuted-los-distribuidores-which-is-allegedly-involved-in-petty-drug-dealing-in-several-departments-of-the-caribbean-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/2024\/07\/10\/the-prosecutors-office-prosecuted-los-distribuidores-which-is-allegedly-involved-in-petty-drug-dealing-in-several-departments-of-the-caribbean-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"The Prosecutor&#8217;s Office prosecuted &#8216;Los Distribuidores&#8217; which is allegedly involved in petty drug dealing in several departments of the Caribbean coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Attorney General&#8217;s Office prosecuted 14 members of the criminal group Los Distribuidores, allegedly involved in drug trafficking in Bol\u00edvar, Atl\u00e1ntico, Magdalena and San Andr\u00e9s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The defendants apparently sold cocaine and marijuana in neighborhoods El Bosque, El Zapatero, Olaya Herrera, Once de Noviembre, Flor del Campo and the rural area of Pasacaballos located in the eastern area of \u200b\u200bCartagena. They also distributed and sold drugs in stores in the municipalities of Soledad (Atl\u00e1ntico) and Ci\u00e9naga (Magdalena).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The investigations showed that the drugs were taken to said place by members of the criminal network who fulfilled the role of transporters. They used buses of public service, private vehicles; and vessels destined for San Andr\u00e9s and Providencia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The defendants who were arrested in seven search operations carried out by the National Police in Cartagena (Bol\u00edvar), Ci\u00e9naga (Magdalena) and Soledad (Atl\u00e1ntico) are: Diego Andr\u00e9s Viloria Arzuza, alias Pollo or Coco; Jhon Jairo Pineda Rivera, alias Walker; Wilmer Gregorio L\u00f3pez Jim\u00e9nez, Carlos Eduardo Z\u00e1rate Ram\u00edrez, alias Gordo; Jader Blanco Fruto, Angis Marcela Miranda Garc\u00eda, Rigail de Jes\u00fas Baldovino Herrera, Olga Patricia Arrieta Vega, Jorge Eli\u00e9cer Mart\u00ednez Coronel, V\u00edctor Manuel Torregroza Echeverr\u00eda and Kellys Johanna Guti\u00e9rrez Miranda.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Santos Jes\u00fas Soriano Fuentes and Nilson Andr\u00e9s Trujillo Polo, who are currently in prison serving a sentence for other crimes, were also prosecuted. For her part, Yoselin del Carmen Contreras was arrested in flagrante delicto.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a result of these operations, 8 kilograms of marijuana, cocaine, 9 cell phones and cash were seized. Likewise, nine fixed stores for drug distribution were eradicated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The defendants did not plead guilty to aggravated criminal conspiracy and manufacturing, trafficking or possession of narcotics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the judge\u00b4 s decision, the 10 men will serve their sentence in San Sebasti\u00e1n Ternera prison in Cartagena; while three of the women received house arrest. Yoselin del Carmen Contreras Romero was released but remains linked to the investigation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Office of the Attorney General makes this information public for reasons of general interest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Attorney General&#8217;s Office prosecuted 14 members of the criminal group Los Distribuidores, allegedly involved in drug trafficking in Bol\u00edvar, Atl\u00e1ntico, Magdalena and San Andr\u00e9s. The defendants apparently sold cocaine and marijuana in neighborhoods El Bosque, El Zapatero, Olaya Herrera, Once de Noviembre, Flor del Campo and the rural area of Pasacaballos located in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-42401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42401"}],"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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42402,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42401\/revisions\/42402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}