{"id":44286,"date":"2025-09-01T16:00:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T21:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/?p=44286"},"modified":"2025-09-02T16:39:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T21:39:25","slug":"the-office-of-the-attorney-general-prosecuted-nine-alleged-members-of-los-urbanos-an-illegal-organization-responsible-for-multiple-crimes-in-la-balastrera-tulua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/2025\/09\/01\/the-office-of-the-attorney-general-prosecuted-nine-alleged-members-of-los-urbanos-an-illegal-organization-responsible-for-multiple-crimes-in-la-balastrera-tulua\/","title":{"rendered":"The Office of the Attorney General prosecuted nine alleged members of Los Urbanos, an illegal organization responsible for multiple crimes in La Balastrera, Tulu\u00e1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Attorney General&#8217;s Office brought nine alleged members of the Los Urbanos criminal group before a judge in Tulu\u00e1 (Valle del Cauca). They are accused of multiple crimes committed in La Balastrera area.<\/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=\"auto\">The people involved are <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">Jes\u00fas Antony D\u00edaz Gonz\u00e1lez, Frank Leonel Indriago Rojas, Angie Emperatriz Escobar Dom\u00ednguez, Nicol Dayana Roncer\u00eda, Y\u00e9sica Coromoto Abreu Berm\u00fadez, Andr\u00e9s Alonso Arce Bandera, Leidy Johana Roncer\u00eda, Johan Alberto Rojas Ospina and Kevin Andr\u00e9s Mesa Perdomo<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/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=\"auto\">A prosecutor appointed to the branch office in Valle del Cauca (Seccional Valle del Cauca) charged the defendants for being allegedly responsible for the crimes of aggravated criminal conspiracy to commit a crime; forced disappearance; manufacturing, trafficking, and possession of firearms or ammunition; forced displacement; aggravated theft; manufacturing, trafficking, and possession of restricted-use weapons, ammunition for the exclusive use of the armed forces, or explosives; terrorism; use of minors in the commission of crimes; homicide; and attempted homicide.<\/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=\"auto\">The defendants are allegedly responsible for at least 11 criminal acts that occurred between September 2024 and the current year. One of the cases is related to the kidnapping of two people in the rural area of Bugalagrande, which occurred on February 5. The victims were apparently taken to the La Balastrera sector, where they were tortured and their corpses dismembered to disappear them.<\/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=\"auto\">Among the homicides attributed to this criminal network is that of a minor, as well as attacks with explosives, thefts, and petty drug dealing, among others.<\/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=\"auto\">The defendants were arrested by the National Police during 14 home searches operations carried out in La Inmaculada and Villacolombia neighborhoods and in La Balastrera neighborhood. The defendants must serve\u00a0a prison sentence.<\/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 brought nine alleged members of the Los Urbanos criminal group before a judge in Tulu\u00e1 (Valle del Cauca). They are accused of multiple crimes committed in La Balastrera area.\u00a0 The people involved are Jes\u00fas Antony D\u00edaz Gonz\u00e1lez, Frank Leonel Indriago Rojas, Angie Emperatriz Escobar Dom\u00ednguez, Nicol Dayana Roncer\u00eda, Y\u00e9sica Coromoto Abreu [&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-44286","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\/44286"}],"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=44286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44287,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44286\/revisions\/44287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}