{"id":44101,"date":"2025-06-11T11:57:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T16:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/?p=44101"},"modified":"2025-06-11T15:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T20:33:11","slug":"two-men-accused-of-possession-of-weapons-and-drugs-were-taken-to-prison-in-turbaco-bolivar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/2025\/06\/11\/two-men-accused-of-possession-of-weapons-and-drugs-were-taken-to-prison-in-turbaco-bolivar\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men accused of possession of weapons and drugs were taken to prison in Turbaco (Bol\u00edvar)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A prosecutor appointed to the branch office in Bol\u00edvar (Seccional Bolivar) prosecuted Andr\u00e9s Felipe Barrios Mart\u00ednez and Julio Enrique Escudero Ben\u00edtez, who were allegedly involved in transporting ammunition and drugs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For these facts, the Office of the Attorney General charged the defendants with manufacturing, trafficking, possession of restricted-use firearms, accessories, parts, or ammunition for the exclusive use of the Security Forces; manufacturing, trafficking, possession of firearms, accessories, parts, or ammunition; and trafficking, manufacturing, or possession of narcotics. They did not plead guilty to the charges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Prosecutor&#8217;s Office stated that on May 30, both individuals were traveling on a motorcycle through the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5 de Octubre<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> neighborhood in Turbaco, where they were stopped by the National Police for an inspection. 100 bags of marijuana, 14 cartridges for rifle and other 7 for handgun were found in their possession. None of them had permits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the request of the Prosecutor&#8217;s Office, a judge sentenced the defendants 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>A prosecutor appointed to the branch office in Bol\u00edvar (Seccional Bolivar) prosecuted Andr\u00e9s Felipe Barrios Mart\u00ednez and Julio Enrique Escudero Ben\u00edtez, who were allegedly involved in transporting ammunition and drugs. For these facts, the Office of the Attorney General charged the defendants with manufacturing, trafficking, possession of restricted-use firearms, accessories, parts, or ammunition for the [&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-44101","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\/44101"}],"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=44101"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44104,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44101\/revisions\/44104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}