{"id":44251,"date":"2025-08-26T11:55:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T16:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/?p=44251"},"modified":"2025-08-27T09:30:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T14:30:47","slug":"a-person-allegedly-involved-in-transporting-53-kilos-of-marijuana-in-northern-area-of-valle-del-cauca-was-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/2025\/08\/26\/a-person-allegedly-involved-in-transporting-53-kilos-of-marijuana-in-northern-area-of-valle-del-cauca-was-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"A person allegedly involved in transporting 53 kilos of marijuana in northern area of Valle del Cauca was arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The Attorney General&#8217;s Office prosecuted Mario Alexander L\u00f3pez Mes\u00edas as the alleged perpetrator of transporting 53 kilos of marijuana in a private vehicle while driving through the municipality of Zarzal (Valle del Cauca) on August 15.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;335559738&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:80}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">According to the investigation, the defendant attempted to flee the scene\u00a0to evade a National Police checkpoint.\u00a0 Authorities found 107 packages of marijuana in the vehicle when he was intercepted, therefore, he was arrested in flagrante.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;335559738&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:80}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">A prosecutor from the branch office in Valle del Cauca charged the defendant with trafficking, manufacturing, or possession of narcotics. He did not plead guilty to the charges.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;335559738&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:80}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">A judge approved the Prosecutor&#8217;s Office&#8217;s request and ordered a prison sentence against the defendant.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;335559738&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:80}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">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><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;335559738&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:80}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Attorney General&#8217;s Office prosecuted Mario Alexander L\u00f3pez Mes\u00edas as the alleged perpetrator of transporting 53 kilos of marijuana in a private vehicle while driving through the municipality of Zarzal (Valle del Cauca) on August 15.\u00a0 According to the investigation, the defendant attempted to flee the scene\u00a0to evade a National Police checkpoint.\u00a0 Authorities found 107 [&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-44251","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\/44251"}],"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=44251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44253,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44251\/revisions\/44253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}