{"id":44296,"date":"2025-09-03T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/?p=44296"},"modified":"2025-09-04T12:11:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T17:11:55","slug":"alleged-member-of-a-criminal-group-involved-in-drug-trafficking-in-villa-del-rosario-norte-de-santander-was-sent-to-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/2025\/09\/03\/alleged-member-of-a-criminal-group-involved-in-drug-trafficking-in-villa-del-rosario-norte-de-santander-was-sent-to-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged member of a criminal group involved in drug trafficking in Villa del Rosario (Norte de Santander) was sent to prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Other seven alleged members of the organization were prosecuted last August.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">At the request of a prosecutor appointed to the branch office in C\u00facuta (Seccional C\u00facuta), a judge ordered Lucas Antonio G\u00f3mez Torres, alias El Tuerto, to serve a prison sentence for alleged aggravated conspiracy and drug trafficking, manufacturing, or possession.<\/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\">It is believed that G\u00f3mez Torres, 43, is\u00a0a member of criminal group known as El Combo de la Frontera, which is allegedly engaged in drug trafficking and distribution in La Parada of Villa del Rosario (Norte de Santander).<\/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\">After 10 months of investigations and surveillance, the defendant was arrested by National Police officers by virtue of a court order on August 31st in Villa del Rosario. During the hearings, alias El Tuerto 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=\"auto\">On August 26, other seven members of this group were prosecuted and sent to prison.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:0,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:80,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\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<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:0,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:80,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Other seven alleged members of the organization were prosecuted last August.\u00a0 At the request of a prosecutor appointed to the branch office in C\u00facuta (Seccional C\u00facuta), a judge ordered Lucas Antonio G\u00f3mez Torres, alias El Tuerto, to serve a prison sentence for alleged aggravated conspiracy and drug trafficking, manufacturing, or possession.\u00a0 It is believed that [&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-44296","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\/44296"}],"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=44296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44297,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44296\/revisions\/44297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}