{"id":43847,"date":"2025-03-13T16:11:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T21:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/?p=43847"},"modified":"2025-03-13T10:07:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T15:07:00","slug":"seven-alleged-members-of-el-hueco-de-san-gabriel-accused-of-extorting-and-displacing-residents-of-itagui-were-sent-to-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/2025\/03\/13\/seven-alleged-members-of-el-hueco-de-san-gabriel-accused-of-extorting-and-displacing-residents-of-itagui-were-sent-to-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven alleged members of \u2018El Hueco de San Gabriel\u2019 accused of extorting and displacing residents of Itag\u00fc\u00ed were sent to prison"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the request of the Attorney General’s Office, a judge imposed a prison sentence against seven alleged members of the criminal organization known as El Hueco de San Gabriel, for their alleged responsibility in the commission of aggravated criminal conspiracy, forced displacement, attempted extortion, criminal restrain, receiving stolen property; and trafficking, manufacturing, or possession of narcotics.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Gaula of National Police arrested Carlos Arturo Gallego Delgado, alias Arturo, the alleged leader of the criminal group; Hernando Jaime Salazar, alias Canguro; and Cristian Danilo Fl\u00f3rez L\u00f3pez, alias Bu\u00f1uelo<\/strong>, who would be the alleged coordinators of the illicit activities.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mateo L\u00f3pez Acosta, alias L\u00e1grimas; Diego L\u00f3pez Agudelo, alias Gallero; Diego \u00c1ngel Arroyave, alias Pocillo; and Sebasti\u00e1n Molina Vanegas, alias Nariz\u00f3n were also arrested. During the operations, four motorcycles, five cell phones, and 316 grams of marijuana were seized.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

This criminal network allegedly operated in neighborhoods such as: San Francisco, El Hueco, 19 de Abril, San Gabriel, Balcones del Triana, and Villa de San Antonio in Itag\u00fc\u00ed (Antioquia). They were allegedly extorting merchants and residents in the area, and also forcing them to abandon their homes to control local drug trafficking in the area. The criminal activities took place between 2024 and February 2025.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

One of the incidents occurred on August 12, 2024, in a park in Balcones del Triana, where several members of \u2018El Hueco San Gabriel\u2019 allegedly intercepted a citizen, whom they accused of stealing a cell phone.<\/strong> Although the man denied committing the crime, the alleged perpetrators allegedly beat, insulted, and threatened him.<\/span><\/p>\n

Later, the victim was reportedly contacted by “Arturo,” who<\/span> accused him of a<\/span>llegedly attacking a member of the gang and demanded him to leave the neighborhood, otherwise, he would be harmed. Due to threats, he left the area.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Another incident occurred on December 22, 2024, when two alleged members of the group apparently bought some items from a store and did not pay.<\/strong> Furthermore, they allegedly intimidated the shopkeeper into letting them carry the groceries, or she would have to give them money.<\/span><\/p>\n

None of the defendants pleaded guilty to the charges.<\/span><\/p>\n

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":"

At the request of the Attorney General’s Office, a judge imposed a prison sentence against seven alleged members of the criminal organization known as El Hueco de San Gabriel, for their alleged responsibility in the commission of aggravated criminal conspiracy, forced displacement, attempted extortion, criminal restrain, receiving stolen property; and trafficking, manufacturing, or possession of […]<\/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-43847","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\/43847"}],"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=43847"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43849,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43847\/revisions\/43849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}