{"id":42593,"date":"2024-08-01T10:21:46","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T15:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/?p=42593"},"modified":"2024-08-01T16:01:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T21:01:18","slug":"alleged-members-of-a-criminal-group-that-had-640-stolen-cell-phones-in-bucaramanga-were-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/2024\/08\/01\/alleged-members-of-a-criminal-group-that-had-640-stolen-cell-phones-in-bucaramanga-were-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged members of a criminal group that had 640 stolen cell phones in Bucaramanga were arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Three men and a woman who were allegedly part of a criminal group involved in receiving stolen cell phones in Bucaramanga were prosecuted by the Attorney General&#8217;s Office<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the investigation, the network&#8217;s\u00a0modus operandi consisted in receiving mobile devices, unlocking them and changing their IMEI, so these could be sold as high-end used cell phones that were offered on social networks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was also revealed that they used minors to commit crimes and divert authorities&#8217; attention.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In two search warrants that were carried out in a residential area of the so-called Alarc\u00f3n neighborhood in Bucaramanga, 640 cell phones were found. In addition, Gonzalo Serrano Pinto, Alexander Montes Montes, Jos\u00e9 Armando Pe\u00f1a Pe\u00f1a and Angie Vanesa Castro Rojas were arrested.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Prosecutor&#8217;s Office charged them with receiving stolen property and using minors in the commission of crimes. They did not plead guilty to the charges.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A judge imposed a prison sentence against three men; and house arrest against a woman.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0The 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>Three men and a woman who were allegedly part of a criminal group involved in receiving stolen cell phones in Bucaramanga were prosecuted by the Attorney General&#8217;s Office According to the investigation, the network&#8217;s\u00a0modus operandi consisted in receiving mobile devices, unlocking them and changing their IMEI, so these could be sold as high-end used cell [&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-42593","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\/42593"}],"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=42593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42594,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42593\/revisions\/42594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}