{"id":43617,"date":"2025-02-04T10:20:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T15:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/?p=43617"},"modified":"2025-02-04T15:33:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T20:33:53","slug":"the-office-of-the-attorney-general-charged-digno-palomino-with-17-homicides-allegedly-committed-by-his-criminal-organization-in-atlantico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/2025\/02\/04\/the-office-of-the-attorney-general-charged-digno-palomino-with-17-homicides-allegedly-committed-by-his-criminal-organization-in-atlantico\/","title":{"rendered":"The Office of the Attorney General charged Digno Palomino with 17 homicides allegedly committed by his criminal organization in Atl\u00e1ntico"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong><em>The crimes attributed to him took place between 2022 and 2023. These would be related to the intention of his criminal network to intimidate the population and take control over illicit incomes in Barranquilla and surrounding municipalities.<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Based on the new evidence obtained by the Attorney General&#8217;s Office, Digno Jos\u00e9 Palomino Rodr\u00edguez, alleged leader of the criminal structure &#8216;Los Pepes&#8217;, a faction of &#8216;Los Coste\u00f1os, was brought before a judge and was charged with 17 homicides and other criminal conduct that took place in Atl\u00e1ntico.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This person, known with the alias of Dino or Sebas, allegedly ordered his illegal organization to carry out selective crimes to intimidate residents, transporters and merchants, and to take control of the petty drug dealing, the collection of extortion and other illicit income.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this sense, he would be involved in 11 criminal facts causing 17 victims between July 2022 and July 2023, in Barranquilla, Soledad and Malambo (Atl\u00e1ntico).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For these facts, a prosecutor appointed to the Territorial Support Directorate charged him with homicide and conspiracy to commit a crime, both aggravated conducts; and manufacturing, trafficking, possession of firearms, accessories, parts or ammunition. He did not plead guilty to the charges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The defendant is currently deprived of his liberty at the maximum and medium-security Prison in Valledupar (Cesar), known as La Tramac\u00faa.<\/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 crimes attributed to him took place between 2022 and 2023. These would be related to the intention of his criminal network to intimidate the population and take control over illicit incomes in Barranquilla and surrounding municipalities. Based on the new evidence obtained by the Attorney General&#8217;s Office, Digno Jos\u00e9 Palomino Rodr\u00edguez, alleged leader of [&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-43617","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\/43617"}],"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=43617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43620,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43617\/revisions\/43620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}