{"id":44492,"date":"2025-11-06T09:59:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/?p=44492"},"modified":"2025-11-06T16:09:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T21:09:55","slug":"alleged-female-member-of-a-criminal-organization-involved-in-transnational-drug-trafficking-was-sent-to-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/2025\/11\/06\/alleged-female-member-of-a-criminal-organization-involved-in-transnational-drug-trafficking-was-sent-to-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged female member of a criminal organization involved in transnational drug trafficking was sent to prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">At the request of the Office of the Attorney General, a judge ordered\u00a0a prison sentence for\u00a0Laura In\u00e9s Arroyave Rinc\u00f3n, an alleged member of the criminal group\u00a0<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">La Terraza<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u00a0that\u00a0would\u00a0be involved in drug trafficking activities.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">According to judicial police operations led by the Technical Investigation Corps (CTI), between January 2019 and October 2022, this organization allegedly sent synthetic drugs to the United States, Europe, Central America, and South America.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The evidence indicates that it recruited men and women from various municipalities in Antioquia and persuaded them to travel to different destinations while concealing the illicit substances in their luggage or on their bodies.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Investigators found that Arroyave Rinc\u00f3n was allegedly responsible for recruiting young people to transport the drugs. She is also believed to have traveled to Argentina with hallucinogenic substances for transnational distribution.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A prosecutor from the Support Structure\u00a0(<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Estructura de Apoyo<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0EDA\u00a0in spanish) charged her with\u00a0aggravated conspiracy to commit a crime for drug trafficking purposes. The defendant did not\u00a0plead guilty to\u00a0the charges.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">For the same facts, 30 members of this criminal organization have been convicted through preliminary agreements. Among those sentenced are three former police officers.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\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>At the request of the Office of the Attorney General, a judge ordered\u00a0a prison sentence for\u00a0Laura In\u00e9s Arroyave Rinc\u00f3n, an alleged member of the criminal group\u00a0La Terraza,\u00a0that\u00a0would\u00a0be involved in drug trafficking activities.\u00a0 According to judicial police operations led by the Technical Investigation Corps (CTI), between January 2019 and October 2022, this organization allegedly sent synthetic [&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-44492","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\/44492"}],"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=44492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44493,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44492\/revisions\/44493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}