{"id":43005,"date":"2024-10-03T15:11:27","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T20:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/?p=43005"},"modified":"2024-10-03T16:38:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T21:38:01","slug":"seven-people-who-allegedly-extorted-merchants-in-the-south-area-of-meta-were-prosecuted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/2024\/10\/03\/seven-people-who-allegedly-extorted-merchants-in-the-south-area-of-meta-were-prosecuted\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven people who allegedly extorted merchants in the south area of Meta were prosecuted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the request of the Attorney General&#8217;s Office, a judge imposed preventive detention measures on three women and four men who were allegedly part of the criminal group &#8216;Los Juanitos&#8217; that were involved in extorting merchants in Ariari region, south area of Meta.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The people involved are Yelin Gonz\u00e1lez Restrepo, alias Bella; Marby Viviana Sanabria Rico, alias Marcela; William Harvey Ortiz Ramos, alias El cantante; Juan Manuel Andrade P\u00e9rez, alias Cofla; \u00c1ngel Mauricio Grajales Godoy, alias Siete; Wilmer Alexander Hern\u00e1ndez and Sandra Milena Qui\u00f1onez Qui\u00f1onez, alias Simpson, who were charged with aggravated conspiracy to commit a crime, extortion, threats and manufacture, trafficking, possession of firearms. The defendants did not plead guilty to the charges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The defendants were allegedly threatening people since 2022. They allegedly made threatening calls and pamphlets to intimidate the victims to deposit the money in bank correspondent banks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In four search warrants carried out by the National Police in Granada, San Mart\u00edn, Vistahermosa and San Juan de Arama (Meta), the suspects were arrested. They allegedly played certain roles within the criminal network.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the request of the Prosecutor&#8217;s Office, a judge imposed a prison sentence on six of the arrested people. Sandra Milena Qui\u00f1onez must serve house arrest due to her status as nursing mother.<\/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>At the request of the Attorney General&#8217;s Office, a judge imposed preventive detention measures on three women and four men who were allegedly part of the criminal group &#8216;Los Juanitos&#8217; that were involved in extorting merchants in Ariari region, south area of Meta. The people involved are Yelin Gonz\u00e1lez Restrepo, alias Bella; Marby Viviana Sanabria [&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-43005","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\/43005"}],"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=43005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43007,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43005\/revisions\/43007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}