{"id":44183,"date":"2025-07-22T10:06:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T15:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/?p=44183"},"modified":"2025-07-22T16:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T21:30:15","slug":"five-people-were-prosecuted-by-the-office-of-the-attorney-general-for-allegedly-being-involved-in-a-homicide-in-leticia-amazonas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/2025\/07\/22\/five-people-were-prosecuted-by-the-office-of-the-attorney-general-for-allegedly-being-involved-in-a-homicide-in-leticia-amazonas\/","title":{"rendered":"Five people were prosecuted by the Office of the Attorney General for allegedly being involved in a homicide in Leticia (Amazonas)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Attorney General’s Office, through the branch office in Amazonas prosecuted five people for\u00a0 being\u00a0<\/span>allegedly involved in the murder of a man on May 26 in Leticia.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The defendants were identified as\u00a0<\/span>Francisco Padilha de Medeiros, Yuliana Alexandra Matapi Macuna, Gileny del Pilar, Thais Alithu Cardoza Bardales and Jaime Andr\u00e9s Duica del Castillo who were charged, b<\/span>ased on their alleged individual responsibilities, with aggravated homicide and illegal possession of firearms.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Judicial police investigations conducted by members of the Technical Investigation Unit (CTI) in Amazonas revealed that the victim was shot while walking near a hotel.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Padilha de Medeiros is believed to have fired the firearm that killed the victim. Once the crime was committed, the alleged attacker fled on a motorcycle that was waiting for him. The driver and passenger crossed the border into Brazil.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

According to testimonies and analysis of security cameras, prior to the murder, the defendants followed the victim, stayed in a place\u00a0near the victim was staying, and established roles to carry out the murder.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Considering the arguments presented by the prosecutor in the case, Padilha de Medeiros pleaded guilty to the charges brought against him, in contrast to the other defendants. At the request of the\u00a0Attorney General\u00b4s Office\u00a0all were sent to prison.<\/span>\u00a0<\/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>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Attorney General’s Office, through the branch office in Amazonas prosecuted five people for\u00a0 being\u00a0allegedly involved in the murder of a man on May 26 in Leticia.\u00a0 The defendants were identified as\u00a0Francisco Padilha de Medeiros, Yuliana Alexandra Matapi Macuna, Gileny del Pilar, Thais Alithu Cardoza Bardales and Jaime Andr\u00e9s Duica del Castillo who were 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-44183","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\/44183"}],"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=44183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44184,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44183\/revisions\/44184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}