{"id":43989,"date":"2025-05-05T08:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T13:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/?p=43989"},"modified":"2025-05-05T16:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T21:52:11","slug":"nine-men-who-would-be-extorting-merchants-in-cucuta-were-prosecuted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/2025\/05\/05\/nine-men-who-would-be-extorting-merchants-in-cucuta-were-prosecuted\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine Men who would be extorting Merchants in C\u00facuta were prosecuted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Attorney General&#8217;s Office brought nine individuals to justice for allegedly extorting merchants in C\u00facuta (Norte de Santander). The defendants were arrested on April 30, while receiving money they allegedly demanded from a citizen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The people involved are: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michael Yuseth Dur\u00e1n L\u00f3pez, Yhon Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez G\u00f3mez, kerwill Ra\u00fal L\u00f3pez Farias, Jos\u00e9 Antonio Arenas Riera, Pedro Jes\u00fas Aular Mare, Mois\u00e9s Alejandro Zarraga M\u00fajica, Carlos Rafael Molina Bocour, Fran Yoneyker Natera Espinoza and Rafael Anderson Ist\u00fariz Mejarez.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a proceeding conducted by Gaula of Metropolitan Police in C\u00facuta, in coordination with Gaula, a fragmentation grenade, a revolver, 29 cartridges (7.62 mm caliber), three cartridges (<\/span>38 mm caliber), narcotics, balaclavas, and 21 pamphlets referring to the AK-47 criminal group, were seized.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For these acts, a prosecutor charged them with extortion; manufacturing, trafficking, or possession of firearms, accessories, parts, or ammunition; manufacturing, trafficking, and possession of weapons, ammunition for restricted use, ammunition for the exclusive use of the Armed Forces, or explosives; and trafficking, manufacturing, or possession of narcotics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">None of the defendants pleaded guilty to the charges, and a judge sentenced them to prison.<\/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 brought nine individuals to justice for allegedly extorting merchants in C\u00facuta (Norte de Santander). The defendants were arrested on April 30, while receiving money they allegedly demanded from a citizen. The people involved are: Michael Yuseth Dur\u00e1n L\u00f3pez, Yhon Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez G\u00f3mez, kerwill Ra\u00fal L\u00f3pez Farias, Jos\u00e9 Antonio Arenas Riera, Pedro [&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-43989","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\/43989"}],"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=43989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43990,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43989\/revisions\/43990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}