{"id":44120,"date":"2025-06-19T16:05:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T21:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/?p=44120"},"modified":"2025-06-19T16:13:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T21:13:33","slug":"alleged-members-of-los-galleros-who-are-accused-of-kidnappings-for-ransom-in-cundinamarca-were-prosecuted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/2025\/06\/19\/alleged-members-of-los-galleros-who-are-accused-of-kidnappings-for-ransom-in-cundinamarca-were-prosecuted\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged members of ‘Los Galleros’ who are accused of kidnappings for ransom in Cundinamarca were prosecuted"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the request of the Attorney General’s Office, a judge imposed a prison sentence against five alleged members of ‘Los Galleros,’ who were allegedly involved in the illegal detention of two citizens to steal their money in Tibacuy and Agua de Dios (Cundinamarca).<\/span><\/p>\n

A prosecutor appointed to the branch office in Cundinamarca (Seccional Cundinamarca) charged them with extortion for ransom, qualified theft, both aggravated offenses; and manufacturing, trafficking, or possession of firearms, accessories, parts, or ammunition. The defendants did not plead guilty to the charges.<\/span><\/p>\n

The people allegedly involved are Mar\u00eda del Rosario G\u00e1mez Camelo and Juan Carlos Rojas Casallas.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Nelson Zabala Rico, \u00c1ngel Mar\u00eda G\u00e1mez Camelo, and Jonathan Javier Reyes Galindo, who were in prison for other cases, were also brought before the court.<\/span><\/p>\n

The first incident took place on April 14, 2024, in Tibacuy (Cundinamarca), where the victim was contacted in order to provide transportation services to Barrancabermeja. Upon arriving at the location, he was allegedly approached by a group of individuals who forced him to transfer 10,000,000 pesos through digital platforms. They also contacted his relatives to demand money in exchange for his release.<\/span><\/p>\n

The other incident occurred on May 16, 2024, in Agua de Dios (Cundinamarca). There, a person who was hired to transport for the move from Bogot\u00e1 was illegally retained. Through threats, they allegedly emptied his bank accounts, stole his vehicle, and demanded 8 million pesos for his release.<\/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 five alleged members of ‘Los Galleros,’ who were allegedly involved in the illegal detention of two citizens to steal their money in Tibacuy and Agua de Dios (Cundinamarca). A prosecutor appointed to the branch office in Cundinamarca (Seccional Cundinamarca) charged […]<\/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-44120","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\/44120"}],"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=44120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44121,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44120\/revisions\/44121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}